Ghosts exists or not –3.{Saujanya
Manohar Kahaniyan about 50 to 55 Years ago}----
Anjuri was very beautiful ,she was
the most beautiful girl in college.Shrikant { Changed name,I forgot the real
one}got attracted towards her.She also felt herself attracted towards him as he
was smart,handsome and tall young man of the college .Anjuri had have a versatile
personality ,she was the most intelligent girl used to be first in the
university, though she was not champion but she was participating in sports too
but her most favourite and beautiful expression was her performance on stage ,she
was a very good dancer and drama actress.Gradually Shrikant and Anjuri came
nearer and started loving each other and dreaming about their future together,They
belong to different castes and it was not a common thing those days in India,in
fact people were quite Rigid about it.The same opposition happened to Anjuri
and Shrikant.Shrikant’s father heard about their relationship and immediately
fixed his engagement with their own caste girl Soma,and Shrikant could not
oppose him as usually that generation’s young children were.He was very sad and
the engagement was imposed on him.He sent a messenger to Anjuri and called her
to meet at the temple on the hill it was their permanent meeting place .This
town was situated in to two parts in both sides of the hill and both of them
living in both parts.
She did not know about his
engagement.She was doing her rehearsal in college for the Group Dance,she had
to perform next day on collage stage on the occasion or yearly social gathering
of collage,she had to play the central heroine role in the dance.After
rehearsal she reached on the hill,Shrikant was waiting for her.The first
sentence he spoke was,”Please forgive me and forget me”What are you saying ?”he
said ,”I got engaged today with a village girl,my father imposed this
engagement on me,I could not oppose him”Anjuri was shocked,could not utter even
a single word.”Shrikant went.
Next day,it was Shrikant’s engagement,and in the evening Anjuri’s stage
show.The hall was crowded with audience,Anjuri reached late,everybody was
waiting for her anxiously .Surprisingly,she was completely ready in Dance dress
and make-up.It was the perfect dance show.After this show,people were appreciating
her dance,some wanted to congratulate her,but she was not there,no body saw her
going.One of her friend decided to go to her house.When she reached,she was
shocked to see the scene.Anjuri’s photo was kept on a centre table,people were
sitting on the carpet.She could not understand what happened when ? because
just before an hour she was dancing with her.She came to know Anjuri had
committed suicide previous evening,and her funeral was done this morning.She
said “What are you saying Aunty ? She performed her dance,thousands of people
saw her,clapped for her.””Ok let us go to the photographer,he has have those photos
in his camera.”People ,sitting there also attracted towards the
conversation,they all went together,forced the photographer to develop the
photos now.He went to the dark room,developed the photos,brought them out,OMG !
all girls in the dance were looking beautiful in those group photos,but the
place Anjuri danced was not empty,only a thin curved line of smoke was there.
Shrikant got married with that
village girl Soma.After one year she gave birth a baby girl.They named her “Rekha”,One
day Soma insisted her husband to take her to the temple on the hill.He
agreed,when they climbed up,Rekha fainted,Shrikant quickly hold six months
Rekha and sprinkled some water from the bottle on her face.She very quickly got
up and said,”Namaste ! “Shrikant could not understand why she was saying
that.They came back,Shrikant felt her completely changed,she was behaving like
an educated woman.She solved his many problems of the office too.She gave birth
two children in next Ten years.After 20years of that incident ,one day again
she insisted Shrikant to take her to the Temple on the hill.When they climbed
up again she fainted ,Shrikant sprinkled water the same way on her face,she got
up as if some body waking her her up from deep sleep,she immediately asked”Where
is Rekha ? Shrikant got surprised ,he said ,”Rekha is in her in laws house””Soma
said,”What are you saying ? Rekha is just six monts old “Now it was Shrikant’s
turn to be surprised,he remembered sweet moments of last 20 years,he spent.Yes
! he spent these years with her beloved Anjuri, fully contented,got two children
from her.Isn’t it unbelievable ?
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