Nirupama

Nirupama-18

NIRUPAMA

(Some Secrets May Better Remain Secrets Forever)

'I cannot bear this', 'I want to pluck my eyes out' only these two sentences were the clues which the late girl Nirupama left in writing one on a wall and one in a book quite unintentionally and involuntarily to know about the reason for her committing suicide. Her father Ranganath, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka along with Nirupama's friend Sukanya pretty well understood that Nirupama did not want the said secret to be known to anyone else. But since her father Ranganath hell bent upon knowing about the said secret, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka ruthlessly investigated the matter only to unearth the said ghastly, shocking and astounding secret which the dead girl terribly wished to keep only with her in her grave forever.

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"They are out of fashion. Very few people wear those black spectacles now a day. Why he prefers to wear such spectacles particularly?" Manaka asked

"Only he may be known about that" Sukanya said. "Better I do ask him about it when I meet him again. He talks very freely with me also."

"Alright then. We are side tracked. Where we are.....yes..Nirupama used to go to him for every two or three days. How many times she might have met him after you have found her like that at your home?" Menaka asked her.

"Your uncle talked with Niranjan. He might have asked that question to him." Sukanya looked at Smarn.

"Yes, I asked him. I think that he said he was also out of station for some fifteen days or so just before Nirupama committed suicide and he came home only after her death."

"A little odd indeed she did not say anything to him also.." Sukanya said. "She always liked him. She shared everything of her life with him I think. In fact her father and mother also respected him like that."

"I know about it. I saw him at their home on two or so occasions." Smaran said.

"Here one thing we need to consider" Menaka once again intervened. "Whatever has happened that much depressive in Nirupama's life has happened just fifteen days or so of her committing suiside. And in those fifteen days also neither Sukanya nor Niranjan were available to her to discuss or share that matter."

Frowns gathered on the forehead of Sukanya for some time and in few seconds they were cleared. "I don't think even we were available, she shared or discussed about it with us. To her own dad, with whom she was so much intimate and consider like a friend, did not say anything at all. She was so much intimate to her mom also and she did not say anything to her also. I don't think she would have discussed anything with us either even we were available in those days to her. To tha matter....." she paused a second before saying. "We have talked over phone occasionally when I was in my relatives' home also and I could not discern any difference in her."

"May be you are right." Menaka nodded her head.

"Now we shall consider the messages that she had left unintentionally. First message 'I cannot bear this' second message 'I want to pluck my eyes out' what we can make out of these messages?" Smaran asked

"I just cannot think of anything about these messages." Menaka said.

"I am also so. These messages are appearing quite odd to me too." Sukanya said.

"What she could not bear? What a twenty one years aged girl like her could not bear? Was there a love failure without your knowledge? Did she fell in love with anyone without your knowing about it at all and faced bad experience?" Menaka asked

"We talked about this." With little irritation Sukanya said.

"There is no wrong in thinking again. Try to remember if you have forgotten anything."