chapter 41

After lunch … Sanyogita was looking at me with tears in her eyes urging me to do something … I assured her with my compassionate gaze … With a plan in my mind … I went into the room saying I need some rest …I called Babya immediately …He also picked up the phone instantly …and said … Yes … Majanu seth what’s the order for this Sevak … Whose information you need … tell me clearly … Don’t hide me …I uttered … I was ashamed to ask your help once again after so many years … but you have solved my problem … sorry to trouble you but I need information about Sumangal and our daughter …Our daughter … Babya shouted… whose daughter … Our daughter … I asserted … though she is daughter of Sanyogita and Sumangal … I have assured Sanyogita that she is my daughter as Sanyogita is also mine … Wa … Seth … der aye … lekin durust aye … Babya exclaimed …Hammm … I hummed … but it’s a humble request from my side … if you could find out the whereabouts of Suparna and her phone number till this evening …Till evening … Babya shouted … you are always in a hurry … Majanu seth … and then take your own time to do the right things … Are yaar … today is Suparana’s birthday and her mother is grief stricken … she is away from her and above all she has no phone number or clue about where she is … I answered …I will try my best for you … Babya assured … by the way Sumangal is in Dehraduan … right … he asked …Yes … I replied … but don’t know exactly … whether he is there right now or not …Ok… I will find out and let you know … Babya saidTill evening … I asserted … I will also try from my side …Means … Babya asked …It’s a long story … I said … through the lawyer … I mean to say … today morning … we met lawyer … I will ask him also what to do …Sure … Babya said and added now we will talk in the evening … during college days … he said laughing, my network was very strong but now after marriage and children … the scenario has changed … still … I will try for you … mere yaar …Thank you … I said and cut the phone … an idea struck my mind … I came out …Sanyogita was dozing sitting on the couch … I went near her and patted on her back gently …She was startled to see me in front of her and asked with the eyes … what …What about his parents? I asked Whose … she asked …Sumangal’s … I replied …Now what about them … she said irritatingly …You are forgetting … I added … they are also grandparent … they might be knowing about her phone number …Oh! … great idea… Sanyogita jumped from the couch happily as a child … Let’s call them … I said …Let me think … she said Think about what … I added What should I do … she said Why ? I asked …The answer is obvious … which in-laws will have good opinion about their daughter -in-law who have left the husband and child behind … she said …But don’t they know the lacunas of their own son … I said They know but they won’t accept … she said …I said, let it be that is other matter but what’s important is … how is their relationship with Suparna … Not bad …she said … but not good also … not like normal dada and dadi …But what’s harm in trying … I asserted … they might have at least wished her being grandparents … right …Yes … she nodded …But I observed … a reflection of anxiety and fear on her face … I was worried about her and seeing all this I was feeling pity for her … I took her hand in mine and slightly pressed it … I will try she said … and grabbed her phone lying on the centre table … Dr. Archana Pandit   After lunch … Sanyogita was looking at me with tears in her eyes urging me to do something … I assured her with my compassionate gaze … With a plan in my mind … I went into the room saying I need some rest …I called Babya immediately …He also picked up the phone instantly …and said … Yes … Majanu seth what’s the order for this Sevak … Whose information you need … tell me clearly … Don’t hide me …I uttered … I was ashamed to ask your help once again after so many years … but you have solved my problem … sorry to trouble you but I need information about Sumangal and our daughter …Our daughter … Babya shouted… whose daughter … Our daughter … I asserted … though she is daughter of Sanyogita and Sumangal … I have assured Sanyogita that she is my daughter as Sanyogita is also mine … Wa … Seth … der aye … lekin durust aye … Babya exclaimed …Hammm … I hummed … but it’s a humble request from my side … if you could find out the whereabouts of Suparna and her phone number till this evening …Till evening … Babya shouted … you are always in a hurry … Majanu seth … and then take your own time to do the right things … Are yaar … today is Suparana’s birthday and her mother is grief stricken … she is away from her and above all she has no phone number or clue about where she is … I answered …I will try my best for you … Babya assured … by the way Sumangal is in Dehraduan … right … he asked …Yes … I replied … but don’t know exactly … whether he is there right now or not …Ok… I will find out and let you know … Babya saidTill evening … I asserted … I will also try from my side …Means … Babya asked …It’s a long story … I said … through the lawyer … I mean to say … today morning … we met lawyer … I will ask him also what to do …Sure … Babya said and added now we will talk in the evening … during college days … he said laughing, my network was very strong but now after marriage and children … the scenario has changed … still … I will try for you … mere yaar …Thank you … I said and cut the phone … an idea struck my mind … I came out …Sanyogita was dozing sitting on the couch … I went near her and patted on her back gently …She was startled to see me in front of her and asked with the eyes … what …What about his parents? I asked Whose … she asked …Sumangal’s … I replied …Now what about them … she said irritatingly …You are forgetting … I added … they are also grandparent … they might be knowing about her phone number …Oh! … great idea… Sanyogita jumped from the couch happily as a child … Let’s call them … I said …Let me think … she said Think about what … I added What should I do … she said Why ? I asked …The answer is obvious … which in-laws will have good opinion about their daughter -in-law who have left the husband and child behind … she said …But don’t they know the lacunas of their own son … I said They know but they won’t accept … she said …I said, let it be that is other matter but what’s important is … how is their relationship with Suparna … Not bad …she said … but not good also … not like normal dada and dadi …But what’s harm in trying … I asserted … they might have at least wished her being grandparents … right …Yes … she nodded …But I observed … a reflection of anxiety and fear on her face … I was worried about her and seeing all this I was feeling pity for her … I took her hand in mine and slightly pressed it … I will try she said … and grabbed her phone lying on the centre table … Dr. Archana Pandit     Â