Jasmine Dreams
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Bhanumati's tale spoken like a memoir to her children. To remind them that, despite what the world says, their father was a good man, somewhere in him, he was a good man.
The forgotten queen of Mahabharatha. Duryodhana's wife. The tragedy of being the villain's love.
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The world will call your father the villain, and I will not stop them. Let them. The stories are not false, and I have no wish to cleanse his sins with my tears.
But this my children, I write this for you to know that the man Ved Vyaasa wrote of was not the man I loved.
My life has been endlessly filled with jasmines, beautiful, fragrant and fated to wilt.
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