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Ek aur love story – chapter 58

A couple of weeks after Meera had regained consciousness at Kabir’s house she felt like she was recovered enough to move back to her house. That morning at the breakfast table just as she was about to broach the topic her phone rang. It was Sunita tai’s niece. Apparently Sunita tai had slipped in the bathroom and broken multiple bones around her ankle. She’d needed emergency surgery. The family…

Meera was by herself, a situation that did not help her mental state much. She tried to distract herself by way of reading, research and her community service. However, nothing much was helping. On her way back from the orphanage she developed a pounding headache. By the time she got home the headache had traveled to the nape of her neck and back. Meera brewed herself a cup of ginger cardamom tea…

Meera spent the next few days in limbo! She wanted to reach out to Shoikat but what would she even say to him? She wanted to reach out to Kabir but she was deeply embarrassed by whatever had transpired in Mumbai. She had spent the last 10-12 years being very private. She’d not had a confidant for the longest time. Once baba had passed and she moved to the US, Meera had become used to keeping her…

About 20 days after Ulhas had passed Meera woke up feeling a great sense of abdominal pain and a kind of pressure on her lower back that she’d never felt before. She went to the bathroom thinking she’d started her period. She perched on the toilet seat when she remembered the pregnancy test. She panicked then. What did this mean? Why was she bleeding so much? She sat on the toilet holding her…

Ek aur love story – chapter 29

Ulhas loved Parvati, Meera had never doubted that for a second. He was devoted to her, openly said that he loved her, never shied away from public display of affection. When they disagreed on fundamental things like casteism and politics of religion Ulhas always tried to reason with Parvati. He did this respectfully and by way of facts. He’d always maintained that in order to change people’s…

Ek aur love story – chapter 28

Meera and Parvati had not seen eye to eye on most things. They both needed Ulhas to keep things civil. Parvati thought Meera was headstrong and stubborn and she needed discipline to tone her down and behave like “good girls” do. Meera on the other had was in thrall of her father. He held her imagination like no one could. He was fierce, a brilliant writer, a superb organizer and someone whose…

Ek aur love story – chapter 27

Meera woke up to screams the next morning. For a minute or two all she could hear was the screaming and her heart thudding in response. The screams were otherworldly. There was such a sharp tinge of pain to them that even without any context Meera knew this was the sound of pain. This was grief of the worst kind.  Her heart in her mouth, afraid of what she would  discover, she stepped out of her…