25. Chandini gets news about Prutvi

CHAPTER 25

Chandini gets news about Prutvi

In the morning, Seeta looked at the time. Chandini was still sleep. Seeta was surprised because she usually wakes up early. She shook her to wake her up.

“Chandini dear, it is already 7am. Don’t you have college today?”

Chandini opened her eyes and looked at the clock. “Oh god! It is so late.”

She went and washed her face and took bath. She looked at the time. It was 8:30am. She heard the sound of the motorbike. She immediately came out with the thought, “Maybe Prutvi is going to college.”

She was shocked to see only Arvind. He started the bike and left.

Chandini went into the house. Her mother gave her the tiffin. She took the tiffin and kept looking towards Prutvi’s compound. Nobody was seen. She went towards the college. She thought, “I wonder what has happened to him. Maybe he left early today. But both are in the same class. I can’t understand.”

She went on walking towards the college. Suddenly she saw Kotari. She thought, “I will ask Kotari uncle. He will tell me everything.”

Kotari saw Chandini and smiled.

Chandini smiled and asked, “Uncle, how came you have come to our college road today morning?”

Kotari said, “When the time comes we have to go to all the roads. Are you going to the college?”

“Yes uncle. Uncle, why didn’t anyone go for jogging today?”

Kotari said seriously, “Everyone was busy treating that terrorist.”

Chandini did not understand anything. “You tell me clearly. I can’t understand.”

“You have to ask everything to god only. You know what is in this bag?”

Chandini got disturbed. She said seriously, “Am I PC Sorcar to tell what is in that bag?”

She hammered her head with frustration. “It is so difficult to get anything out of this fellow.”

Kotari observed her and laughed. “I will come to the actual story. Why are you taking tension?”

Chandini was shy.

“Do you know the breaking news in our compound?”

She was surprised. “What uncle? What happened? Tell me.”

Kotari said, “The faces of the ladies were filled with shadow of darkness and the faces of men were shining with brightness.”

Chandini was shocked. “What? Prutvi is not there? Did anything happen to him?”

Kotari said seriously, “Where will he go? He will give gate passes to all of us but he will not go anywhere.”

Chandini was in tension. She clutched his hands and shook them. “Please uncle. Tell me. What happened to Prutvi?”

Kotari slowly removed the herbal roots from his bag and showed it to her.

Chandini put her hand on her head. “Please uncle. Tell me what happened. You are simply creating tension.”

“Ah Ha. Looks like you have also fallen in his trap. But how came? The bottle never left the compound. Oh oh. God knows how many techniques he knows.”

Chandini got angry. She tried to go away.

Kotari stopped by taking her hand. “Wait I will tell you the facts. Prutvi has fever since yesterday night. That is why I am taking all these herbs to prepared kashaya for him.”

Chandini held his hand anxiously. “How is he now uncle?”

“You don’t take tension. He is under the care of my wife. All the compound ladies are standing in a queue to serve him. After all he is a boy from the ashram. That is why he is insisting on kashaya.”

Kotari left. Chandini was shocked. She stood on the road like a statue. She could think only about her hero Prutvi.