Barrister Babu(os/ts)

Sindoor(part-1)

Bondita chuckled seeing a vendor selling "chamatkari sindoor".She now knew that these things aren't real,but she still believes that if a person believe a thing from their heart and they do it for a good cause it will actually bring results.
Bondita was returning from court,she had a hard time obtaining any case but lately she had a great luck,and why won't she?she worked hard for it,and she won those cases too,those people who used to mock her behind her back,she has stopped their mouth with her success,and some man with their fragile masculinity is none of Bondita's concern.
She was returning home when she saw that vendor selling those "chamatkari sindoor", unknowingly her feet stopped.She usually goes straight home after work,but today she had something to buy so she went to market first.Bondita felt deja Vu.She was chuckling but A lonely tear escaped from her eyes.When she was all alone in London,some nights when she was extremely tired of fighting and was at the verge of drowning herself in her loneliness she used to torture herself further by thinking about this "chamatkari sindoor"incident.She knew,she always knew why child marriage was bad,and she supported and believed him.She had given him her life,so what to do with it was entirely on him too,she just like a devotee followed her god blindly.But just sometimes,very rarely,in the moment of weakness she used to doubt his decision,she used to kill those doubts instantly but the regret for her actions?She sometimes used to think what if she didn't do those crazy things, would he still chose this path?what if she gave up on her mission to become "Adarsh patni"early on when she understood it was hurting him,but she was a kid and she felt insecure and hurt beyond words,her god was putting distance between them.She tried hard to not think about these,No matter how hard she used to try those didn't go away,she was just a kid in a faraway land,away from her loved ones all alone.But he had made her strong and she was Bondita,she used to bounce back the next morning with her bright smile like the previous night didn't even exist,no one used to see the sad, lonely girl hidden behind the bright smile,the girl who used to bravely fight against discrimination was a person who used to cry herself to sleep,she used to think she will die without her mother but she had learned how to live without her,but Without ANIRUDH there was no Bondita.But she promised him,she promised him that she will welcome her new life with open arm with a smile on her face,she did,she had a hard time at first to do so,but her being a cherry girl she got used to it,she did a lot of new things,even in midst of heavy discrimination she faced for being an Indian girl she had friends.She enjoyed spending time with her friends.But every night when everything was quite and she was done with her studies,she used to hid her face behind her pillow and....but sleep hardly came to her even when she was tired.She used to cry every night,she used to miss her home,her ma,her kaka sasurji,som dada,batuk,her friends back home,but she used to miss breathing freely,she used to miss laughing freely and living her best life,but she knew she can't talk with any of them neither she can have these feelings anytime soon as he wasn't with her here, Anirudh Roy Choudhury wasn't here with her so how can she breathe freely,how can she laugh and live her life in content,but she used to console herself saying,this emptiness is for few days,she will feel whole again very soon,and she didn't forget her pain,but she used to start the next day with a bearable one.The nights were tough on her,but she suffered a fate worse than death just for him,just to pay him "gurudokhina". Staying away from him felt worst than death,but he never left her,he was always with her in her heart.
Bondita went towards the vendor remembering those horrible nights.
Vendor: nomoshkar Malkin
Bondita smiled weakly towards him,"kaka,why do you sell this while saying all those things?"
Vendor smiled a bit,"barrister sahiba,it depends on people,if they believe in it,it will work,but if they don't it won't.And you believed in it didn't you,now look at you it worked"
Bondita was shocked,"you remember me kaka?"
Vendor smiled widely,"why won't I Malkin,you always were our only Malkin,And barrister Babu helped me lot since you were a kid,so of course i remember you"
Bondita smiled endearingly,yes he was indeed a great man who helped a lot of people.
But it is true,she believed in this sindoor,and she forced him to put it on her,he didn't but he accidentally did.She doesn't believe in this stuffs but it's funny how she still believed it.She wasn't planning on buying any of it but ended up buying 10 packets just like when she was a kid.
She brought the thing she wanted and went home.
Roy Choudhury mansion was standing lavishly with all it's shine still intact.Bondita went inside,meet her kids,they weren't her biological kids,but her husband has adopted them,so they were her kids too.she met with kaka sasurji,baba and samporna ma,then she went up to get fresh to do the sandha arti.