Barrister Babu: Revenge or a Motive?

Chapter 9: Their own identity

How does it feel when we expect something but due to some unfortunate things it seems impossible, thus we lose all the hope, and suddenly that thing occurs unpredictably.

Same thing was occurring with Anirudh and Thakuma who failed to convince the girls for competition and suddenly they tuned up at the spot. Indeed they were extremely happy perhaps they wanted to know how did they got ready for this. But for time being they focused on the current situation.

"Toh chunauti shuru hoti hai, ab" said Anirudh loudly with a sly smile. Thakuma blew the conch, marking the beginning of the Competition.

"Chunauti abhi bas shuru hui hai, aur aap sab aise jashn mana rahe ho jaise chunauti jeet chuke ho" uttered Phillips.
"Ye toh inki purani aadat hai." Uttered Bondita coming in front of Anirudh and Thakuma and continued "bhul jaate hai ki khel toh abhi sirf shuru hi hua hai." "Khel nahi, ab yudh hoga." Anirudh snapped aloud. Bending a bit towards Bondita's face he uttered making it only audible to her "and if I'm not wrong, tumne hi kal raat ko kaha tha na, ki jo bhi tum kar rahi ho jang ke liye kar rahi ho Bondi... oh sorry. Mrs. Suzie Fernsby" to which Bondita rolled her eyes away gritting her teeth. "Aur iss shankh naad ki awaaz ko humara lalkaar samjhiye" said Thakuma.

"Toh ab iss mukaable ke fair jury ko bulate hai. Mr Navroz" called Jacob and then arrives a man in his 60s. He is the same person who used to be the Principal of Oak leaf School.

"Inhe toh aap jaante hi honge. Ye humare school ke Principal reh chuke hai. Iss chunauti ke saare niyam yahi banayenge aur ye judge bhi banenge" said Jacob. "Par ye toh angrezo ke sanstha mein kaam karte the unhi ke tankhwe pe rehta tha. Inpe bharosa kar sakte hai kya hum?" Asked Thakuma to which Anirudh replied "Aap uski chinta mat kijiye, hum sir pe vishwaas kar sakte hai. Pichli baar ke chunauti mein bhi inhi ko nyaayadheesh banaya gaya tha. Aur hum jeete bhi the."

"Anirudh my child, I hope iss baar bhi tum jeetoge." Said Navroz. "Iss baar aisa nahi hoga sir" snapped Bondita and everyone looked at her confusingly while she continued smirking "pichli baar ye jeete the kyuki inke team mein Bondita thi, jo apni mandali ko ekakrit mein rakhti thi aur isi wajah se wo jeete the. Iss baar inke team mein naa hi Bondita hai, aur naa hi Ekta."

"So isse pehle ki main niyam batau, aap dono team ek dusre se mil lo." Said Navroz.

The Tulsipur girls came forward and Sampoorna introduced them one by one.
"Main Sampoorna, ye Ashalata, Maushmi, Shorvori aur ye Poorva."

Main Tapur, ye Tupur didi, Pushpa, Lolita didi, aur ye Madura didi." Spoke Tapur on behalf of Krishna Nagar.

"Aur?" Asked Phillips while the girls looked at him confusingly. He continued "Parichit karne ka matlab sirf naam batana nahi hota." "Oh ho Philly, tumhe nahi pata? Ye Hindusthani ladkiyon ke paas unke naam ke alawa aur koi pehchaan nahi hai." Hearing this Anirudh gritted his teeth in anger, while she continued "inhe main dikhati hu, sahi mayne mein parichay dena kya hota hai."

"Girls" called Bondita aloud. One by one the girls came and Bondita started introducing each of them along with their capabilities.

As soon as Bondita called the first one a solid white ball bounced between the villagers due to which they were shocked for a moment and moved from their place a bit. A girl around 14 year old came and picked up the ball with her left hand, bounced it in the air and hitted it from bottom with her right fist towards Bondita. Bondita stretched both her hands joining them together hitting it back with the same intensity while she caught it and came in front of the villagers. Bondita gave a glance to Sampoorna, Tupur and other girls and said "Ye hai Amelia, the volleyball champion"