Nirupama

Nirupama-20

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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Ranganath sat just beside her and Niranjan took the chair just opposite to her.

"You just try. If she is not willing to come into this room don't force her. Just say or ask her to come into this room with you. If she agrees take her into it. If she does not agree forget about it. Anyhow carefully observe what she would say and how she would behave once you say it."

"Alright." Menaka nodded her head.

"Niranjan, how it would be if she tried to make her realize the truth while she is in trance? As this girl hypnotizing her too, it would be quite easier to do so." Ranganath asked Niranjan.

"At the same time quite dangerous also. If we do so we are by-passing the whole affair and taking a shortcut. That is to make the old lady realize the truth or accept it in the blunt way. It is possible to make her realize it. But it would have quite serious affect. I would not feel surprise if she instantly turns completely mad after she knows in a blatant way that her daughter is no more."

"But in your opinion she already knows that her daughter is no more." Niranjan said. "You said that she is forcing that imagination on herself."

"Considering your observation recently we cannot say anything in a specific way. She may be really imagining Nirupama. For all safety, we have to take an indirect route Ranga." Niranjan said.

"As you say. I have no objection. You always want our good." Ranganath resigned.

"Try to spend sometime in this room with her if she agrees to come with you into this. Try to say something or other to her mentioning that her daughter was dead. Take her to the photograph onto the wall and show her, her daughter. Just see how she reacts."

"Alright." There was fear in Menaka's heart and eyes also.

"All this you do only if she agrees to come here. If she does not agree forget about this step. Now I tell you what you should do while she is under hypnosis. Are you taking her completely into hypnosis with your hypnotism?" Niranjan asked her.

"It is mostly to put her into sleeping. But of course she is responding fast." Trying to remember how Nirmala was behaving under her hypnotism Menaka said.

"That means you have become successful in hypnotizing her. It was because she was quite willing to become hypnotized and she already experienced it through her daughter. But now...." Niranjan stopped for a moment and looked carefully into the face of Menaka. "It is very important step. Don't hypnotize her into sleep. Hypnotize her to be awaken but under your control. You have to give the suggestions that 'you would not fall into sleep at all but listen to me quite carefully. You accept whatever I say. Your mind is completely in my control'. Like this." Niranjan said.

"Can I be successful? I doubt. I am not having much experience in this. I never have hypnotized anyone except aunty." Menaka doubtfully said.

"You need not worry about. It is very simple. You are not going to give her dangerous suggestions. What all you do while she is under hypnosis is just prepare her to accept the truth."