Reaching Khanna, a small town in Punjab, Murti and Usha set up their small house hold. Murti had joined his job in a newly established college in Khanna, just a few months before their marriage in 1946, and had still not set up a proper house, that now both Usha and he would do. Murti …
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No. 19. A New Family
The few days, that Usha spent in the village, where she had come as Murti’s bride, gave her a new insight into life, filling her with quite new feelings. These were feelings of belonging with those whom she had no relations till only a few days ago, as well as some uncertainty of trying to …
No. 18. Ki Ho ke shahar di kuri: a city girl
A city girl in the village: Once Murti arrived in the village with Usha’s doli, a beautiful name for the bridal vehicle, there was a continuous chain of celebrations. Usha just followed the procedure and was soon flowing in the rhythm, mostly in tow with Murti. Murti had a pink stole around his neck which …
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No. 17. Din shagana da chadya
The auspicious day has finally arrived January in Punjab, has a mixed weather, as the first half of the month is cold with chilly mornings, and freezing evenings, but as the Lohri passes, which is mostly on 13th January, it starts to warm up. Then as Basant, the season of Spring approaches, the days start …
No. 16. The Black Coat
Usha’s grandmother Bhabhoji, who had given up on her eldest son, Channa getting married, had offered to host Usha’s wedding in their palatial Modal Town house in Lahore. Everywhere in the house, which already had its own mad schedule of activities, there was now even a greater hustle and bustle to do with the wedding …
No. 15. Chidiyan da chamba
Usha had been walking around in a daze. The marriage date had been fixed for January 27th which was only three months away and the time in between, which earlier had seem to be crawling since Murti had left to go to his job in Punjab, had suddenly took wings. It was going so fast, …
No. 14 “Yes I do”!
By the time, Nanna and Dutt left for their new home in Jallandar, where Dutt had taken up a job at a college, it was already September, and the season had started to change. Murti had also found a job, in Punjab, in a newly established Degree college in Khanna, a tradition that Murti, in …
No. 13. The dream and the division
The foreboding Life takes turns. One decides to go one way but then something comes up and changes the course of one’s life. We can say it is destiny, but then if we try to understand the “how, what and why” of these changes, we can see that it is also one’s own effort/one’s doing …
No. 12 the Magician
Once things settled down, after Murti’s arrival, and the police saga, which had left everyone a bit unsettled, Usha didn’t know how to act, as suddenly she had become quite sceptical about Murti. Who was he? She knew who he was, but what kind of person was he? Usha couldn’t help indulging into self-pity, self-doubt, …
No. 11. A glass of hot cardamom tea!!
When Usha got home that evening, the rain had already started. It being the rainy season, rain was not unexpected, and it had started to pour, but something that was unexpected though that is what she had been waiting for, was the arrival of Murti! … Hurrying, almost running on the road, Usha had reached …
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