Nirupama

Nirupama-27

                                                                                       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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"Now tell me what those thoughts you want to share with me." Sukanya said.

Then Menaka told Sukanya about her reading Nirupama's dairy and the matter she read about someone praising her eyes. "Then Nirupama indeed felt happy. There is never an occasion that she had to feel bad about her eyes."

"Not just that new friend, many other people also used to praise her eyes. It is not only her eyes that are attractive in her face. She is a dazzling beauty. But her eyes were quite attractive and appeared intelligent." Sukanya said

"It is very much puzzling." Menaka said. "I just could not make any guess why that she wanted to pluck her eyes out."

"We have said that point many times in ourselves. Do we need to worry about it now also?"

"Of course no. One more important thing here is" then she explained to her about her thinking that Nirupama's mother knew the reason why her daughter committed suicide.

"Preposterous! How her mother could have been known about that?"

Then Sukanya explained to her why she was thinking like that.

"Alright, Nirmala did not show any surprise or try to know what that led her daughter to commit suicide. But she turned mad. Mad people don't behave logically or rationally."

"Her madness is only partly and it is not complete. Deep inside her she knows the truth."

"What if her madness is complete? How you and I can say that it is only a partly madness?"

"Except thinking that Nirupama is still alive she is behaving normally in all other matters. She is cooking, she is cleaning the utensils and she is keeping the house clean in a usual way. Unless, otherwise, one knows about this Nirupama episode, one cannot say that she is mad."

Sukanya did not say anything immediately. After few seconds she said. "But I cannot think that she knows about it. Alright what we can do if she knows the truth?"

"We have to especially I and my uncle should see that she tells the truth."

"What!" Sukanya said with surprise. "How you people are going to get the truth out from her?"

"That depends on my uncle. He makes some plan to get the truth out from Nirmala."

"My god!" Sukanya hissed out heavily. "You detectives are dangerous things! You do anything to get the truth out."

"We are not adamant on that in fact." Menaka said. "But her father Ranganath is stubborn to know the truth. There is an agreement also between him and my uncle."

"What he would do if the agreement terms are not honoured? What he would do if you people stop all this completely?"

"Hey, what you are talking? Why we should stop what we are doing? What would be the problem if the truth comes out through Nirmala?"