Love and Worries
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By Hiranya Borah
Copyright 2016 Hiranya Borah
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Preface
The book is based on some wild thoughts. We are always worried thinking about loss of someone near and dear, physically or emotionally. However, when we leave someone with or without valid reasons, we never try to gauge his/ her emotional sufferings.
Normally, we do not think twice to go for a better pasture. We never look back the earlier fields which fed us till yesterday. In case of development of new relations also, we cannot visualize the extent of the mental trauma of the other one whose importance has been reduced at the expense of a new relation However, whenever we develop some new relations, some old relations are bound to suffer. We cannot visualize the extent of the mental trauma of the other one whose importance has been reduced at the expense of the new relation.
Again, when you have to change a relation, you may suffer. In this book, when Deepankar was forced to see Gayatri, whom he saw as his own sister till few hours ago, as his wife, he had to face a lot of mental agony.
Deepankar has to face a whole lot of problems when his best friend died in a road accident leaving three month pregnant wife, Gayatri. Please read the book to what happened to the new forced relation; you may love it also like my other books.
I place my sincere thanks and gratitude to my wife for allowing me to write something. I thank my son, daughters, friends and foes for encouraging me to write something always. However, above all, I am thankful to my readers for sparing their valuable time to read my books.
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Chapter I: Friends
Deepankar and Manoj are friends from their school days. They belonged to middle class families of New Delhi. Both of them were single child of their parents and due to their friendships, their parents also became close to each other so much that they seldom differentiate them in terms of love towards them. Many of friends thought they were twin brothers. Those who are close to their families used to say, they are brothers developed in different wombs.
After their schooling, they went to the same college for their engineering courses and luckily for them, both of them were selected by the same company. To everyone’s surprise, they were also able to join in the same place, office at Noida, about thirty KM from their residences. So, both of them are travelling to their office by a single car, one day Deepankar drives and on the other day, Manoj drives. They never bother who drives whose car.
However, there was a major difference between them, Deepankar is an extrovert, having N number of friends and on the other hand, Manoj was an introvert, having no friend except Deepankar. All the friends of Deepankar used to treat Manoj as their brother, but not as friend.
Most of their choices are also similar. However, luckily for them a girl, Jyoti stole the heart of Deepankar and Manoj was not moved by Jyoti’s charm. Rather, Manoj was playing the role of a brother of Deepankar. After one year’s courtship, Deepankar married Jyoti where Manoj had organized everything, from food to honeymoon tickets.
Exactly one month after that, Manoj married Gayatri, daughter of his father’s friend. Both Deepankar and Jyoti played the role of perfect host in his marriage. Unfortunately, Manoj and Gayatri could not go for the honeymoon due to last minute stomach upset of Manoj. Deepankar and Jyoti consoled the new couple. Jyoti told Gayatri, ‘I understand you must be very disappointed for cancellation of the honeymoon trip. For you and Manoj, going for a week or so was necessary to know each other (indicating that they had not met each other before marriage, a typical North Indian arranged marriage where parents decide whom to marry). But never mind both of you can go after one or two weeks.’
But that did not happen to Manoj and Gayatri even after three months of their marriage. In the meantime, Gayatri became pregnant. So going for a honeymoon has permanently cancelled. However, Gayatri was not unhappy about that. She was happy to attain ‘to be mother’ status.
Openly Deepankar loves Jyoti and treats her equal in all terms of their married life. Contrary to that, Manoj became a typical husband who treats his wife as less equal life partner, a life partner through a contract, not through heart. That did not go un-noticed to Jyoti and Deepankar. Jyoti felt sorry for Gayatri and always thanked God for being Deepankar and Manoj completely different towards maintaining relations, though they were the best friends.
During a short span of time, Deepankar became close to Gayatri as Gayatri filled the void of a sister in Deepankar’s life. Gayatri also took Deepankar as her elder brother. Though Deepankar behaves Gayatri as his own sister, Manoj never behaves Jyoti as his sister; rather he is indifferent towards her.
From her childhood, Jyoti saw her father behaves all the wives of his friends as his sisters only and the other uncles also behave her mother as their sister only. But Manoj behaves completely differently with her, as an indifferent person. That sometimes hurts her. However, she noticed that he treats the parents of Deepankar as his own parents. She found that strange. One day, Jyoti asked Deepankar about this particular behaviour of Manoj. Deepankar told, ‘For him, there are only few important persons in this world which include our parents and me along with his own parents. So far I am concerned, you must have already understood, I am an open minded person. In that sense we are diametrically opposite. But still we are best friends. In due course, you may also be part of his core group!’