| 'Time' Series: Book One |
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The workings of her brain were a mystery to her own pneuma.
That's what Hinduja Rao always thought.
But, quite similar to her thoughts about her own self, was someone else around her.
Her newly wedded husband, the...
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Audio Theme - Taare Gin | Dil Bechara |
Word Count : 4300
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11 | Family In Chaos
Four months had elapsed in the blink of an eye.
Mahadevan was away on an official expedition to China for the past three weeks. Meanwhile, Hinduja and Anirudh were over at her brother's place for a two-week sojourn. Her in-laws were coming to visit them, and hence, she was packing both her and Anirudh's clothes back in their travel bags to go to the Dogra manor instead of returning home the following day. Her brother, on the other hand, was playing with the toddler back in the garden under the crimson rays of the sunset.
The presser cooker whistled for the fourth time in a row in the lofty industrial-style kitchen of her brother's farmhouse just as she got done packing the last piece of Anirudh's Winnie-the-Pooh-doodled underwear.
"Bhaiyaaaa-----!" She called out at the top of her voice.
"Bark!" A masculine voice echoed back from somewhere outside the house.
"Switch off the gas." She shot back.
"You do it!"
Sighing in exasperation, she zipped back both the luggage bags and walked out of the room.
"Lazy bum." Stepping down from the last step of the stairs, she marched straight into the kitchen. "Only the Almighty knows how he even became a surgeon."
It was Sunday. Hence, the Rao siblings had collectively settled on preparing some non-vegetarian delicacies for dinner.
Hinduja switched the gas off and advanced out of the kitchen into the hall. She turned off the music system, which was loudly blasting - 'Lakdi ki kaathi." The volume was loud enough to wake up the dead from their graves. She then proceeded out of the confines of the house and sauntered into the garden.
