Thursday, July 26, 2007

The untold story

Once upon a time in India, in a district called "Dharapuram" , in the wee hours of the morning, a beautiful girl was born. She was the last one in a family of 5 and became the cutest "kadai kutty". Her folks named her "A" . She was an inborn mathematician, something she had inherited from her dad, who was a high school teacher. They then moved to Trichy. She did her schooling and graduation in an "all-girls" institution. She grew up into a strong and independent woman, who landed up in a job at a telephone exchange.And that's when she met Mr."B". Now a little background information about Mr.B. He was the third child in a family of 9 kids. Luckily,his granny was fond of him and he grew up under her care at Palayamkotai, Tirunelveli dist.,while his folks with the other kids stayed in Trichy. He was always full of energy and had an undying thirst for knowledge. He grew up into a very intelligent,dark and handsome young man, with an unbeatable sense of humour, which many of the opposite sex found totally irresistible. As fate would have it, he ended up in the same office as "A",who was the "woman next desk".
A and B soon became good friends. They had common interests which mostly figured around fiction and non fiction books, music and drama. Each found the other extraordinarily amusing and their relationship initially was a bond of friendship between two colleagues. It was those times when a guy talking to a girl was considered as the greatest "sin",with no chances of forgiveness!Their friendship looked like "Sin" to the scavengers in office,dying for some element of excitement,which would be the driving force to come to work the next day.Rumours started spreading like wild fire, in the office. Everything would have been perfect if they both were strong about their friendship.But then,"surprise surprise!". B was secretly in love with A. B knew quite well, unlike his future endeavors,that a love untold would remain untold forever.So mustering up the little courage that was left in him, he proposed to A.It was the hardest times of his life. A liked B but din't love B...well, not yet! "A" took her own sweet time. She had a lot of things to consider.For instance, their distinctive family backgrounds, A being an orthodox "iyer ponnu" and B belonging to a Non -Brahmin family. A was a strict veggie , even smelling an egg was equivalent to crime and nausea for her. B was brought up with an instinctive belly for the "non - vegetables". Considering all these facts,with some persuasion from B's faithful and emotionally driven buddies, she made up her mind. It was the hardest decision of her life and she made it. She never looked back after that.
Their love life bloomed into something so beautiful,something more like a fantasy,a dream come true. They wrote to each other regularly, met very rarely, and each time they met, their unconditional love for each other became more intense.Then what shouldn't happen, happened. Exactly like in the movies. "A" got caught.Guess how?? The Letters! I guess in those times, A didn't know that letters(love) were meant to be hidden,or rather burnt. Everything went from bad to worse, war broke out.The two families, on the very first acquaintance, waged war against each other. The usual hierarchy of events followed suit. A was completely isolated from the world. Totally under home arrest. B could do nothing but pine away for his love. Things went out of control and B decided to marry A in a Register Office. It was a fine day,a very special day for someone. She dressed up in a very ordinary saree,flung her bag on her shoulder,strapped her watch in position and snapped back to life. She was getting ready for work. She took one look at her Dad, Sis, Bro, all of whom had made the past 6 months of her life a catastrophe. Then she looked at her Mother,who's eyes welled up at the sight of her daughter looking normal,after what seemed like ages. She knew that they would love her, no matter what she became. A stepped out the house and their lives. B was her life now. They got married in a temple and went undercover, even on their honeymoon, as A's Big Bro was getting all serious about the issue and was trying to track them down. B had guts but not enough to handle thugs! So A and B travelled to a lot of places, along with a C,who was in the wireless service, and was B's close friend. After some months, B got a job in Bangalore and they started their life in a single bedroom,sorry, single room house, a cot and a wooden stool being their first piece of furniture. Life was too good to be true. Both of them earned and contributed to B's widespread family.A was immediately accepted by her in-laws , not the same with B. B was soon accepted, a year after their marriage ,when their first gift from God arrived - when their son was born. Things were back to normal. A and B still live with the same love and compassion they once felt, long time back, when they shared the same work space. Soon after their son was born, they had a daughter . A daredevil female, who had all the guts in the world,to blog about her parents, thinking it would be a nice change..Yea! you're right....!! Thats me!!!!! hahaha..................!!!!!!!!

7 comments:

Vivek_Gangadharan said...

Thats just awesome sowmie ... just the way mom told us i guess... yet another good 1 frm my little sis i am very much proud of ...

Anonymous said...

kudos ... good writing ... keep it up
And u shd probably consider writing as a serious alternate career option. We might hav a Jhumpa Lahiri in the making !!

s()ms!e said...

Thank you..wil definitely have tht in mind.. ;) :)

Mythreya said...

Good on ya.. Keep writing in the same manner...

Anonymous said...

Thats one awesome love story.. forward it to Cheran. It is more interesting than my parents' love story..

Nicely written. Way to go.. Keep writing.

SierrA ManiaC said...

To say you write well is an understatement. By and large these days you are an inspiration for me.

Keep up the nice work. Cheran would do not much good to your work. You gotto forward to Maniratnam or Shankar.

Ice-Thorn said...

awesome sowmie!
thoroughly enjoyable writing!!

it wud do good 2 get sum pointers frm u..

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