Letters from Dalhousie to Tulsipur

Part 6-Anirudh & Bondita

The sounds of crashes came from the room of Anirudh Roy Chowdhury in the morning. Startling everyone in the Haveli. Batuk was getting his breakfast done, when he heard the crash. Trilochon nearly fell off of his sofa seat at the sound.

"What is that Gadha doing?"-he asked Bihari and the confused soul answered.

"Maybe he is angry Malik. Chote Malik is like that na"-Trilochon was incensed at hearing the reply.

"How dare you to say that about Anirudh Bihari? Go to the kitchen"-a chastised Bihari went to the kitchen and Trilochon frowned to himself.

He at times cursed himself, for he was the reason all of this came to be. If he hadn't arranged that suhagraat, then situations probably wouldn't have turned out like this. He didn't like the way his bahu was behaving. So cold in her letters and only respectful. Her letters made him realize the extent of Bondita's hurt and it gave him the utter embarrassment that, it was due to his actions today, that Anirudh and his Bondita bahu was suffering.

Both of them were wrong in their way. But Anirudh bringing Manorama home that day and his admiration for her made Bondita snap.

After all, which wife would tolerate another women at their home.

And Manorama not leaving immediately, after Bondita bahu's departure made the situation worse.

Trilochon personally hated Manorama, for she didn't know anything and the way she tried to win over them with her half baked ideas.

As if anyone could take the place of his Bondita Bahu!!!

He had donated one thousand rupiah after her leaving to the south. He just hoped, she never graced their doorsteps again.

And he was super angry at Batuk for telling everything to his Bondita bahu.

They had made him stop consuming sweets altogether. He was still upset about it. And his bahu had the audacity to even scold him in her letters about his sweet consumption.

"Dada, are you okay?"-Somnath asked Anirudh, worried for his health. Because from the previous experiences, he knew that it must be his Boudi's letter that had made him snap.

He hated the entry of Manorama in their lives as it made his mother like boudi leave immediately. He hated her presence and even supported Batuk in making her life miserable by helping him in the pranks.

Anirudh was fuming and breaking the things in his room hadn't calmed him down. He wanted to see his stubborn wife in front of him and drag her to his study for a serious conversation.

He wanted to stop this doubts of her. And make sure that, she doesn't have any remaining doubt about his fidelity.

He knew, Bondita was clearly lying. As in one of the pictures, sent by the warden; she was clearly wearing her Shakha Pola and sindoor. She looked ethereal in her marital signs. But he had also seen the boys surrounding her in that picture. Probably her classmates.

And it made the alpha male in him wanting to come out. He wanted to thrash those boys, who had the guts to propose his wife or look at her in a lustful way.

He was already insecure. And Bondita's insistence of accepting anyone else in her life made the most dark side of him want to come out. He wanted to be there with her constantly.

And had even planned to shift in Dalhousie with her but only if this vacation proves fruitful.

For he didn't want to force a angry and reluctant Bondita to share a roof with him. He would rather bear her anger through her letters.