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..salman  stood outside an ordinary house in that low middle class colony, the apparent  condition of the house narrated  a story of lack and depriviation, it was a poor victim of neglect , though beautifully designed  attractive spot yet  uncared for , he glanced vaguely at the door  which had lost all its  real grandeur and rich colour  to the multiple layers of dust stuck on it, he habitually scratched his head and mumbled this us the address all right , mobile shiwed green tick  for location  searched  salman wearily looking around once more walked closer and pressed the bell , a few minutes later a youngush woman emerged from within, she was about seventeen , fair   plump  clad in brown , bright black eyes  were filled with sadness  with supressed  fury

chamkiley andhere

...his mind wss slowly and steadily moving from the depths of darkness towards  the lights 

Lights were incredible  like fliecs of glow worms  simply shimmering   imoressing their presence  pulling him towards consciousness , his eyelids heavy with unimaginable weight  unable to open  besides weight a strange sensation of inhuman rustling was  forming  inside his mentalscape, amidst all this chaos he tried to make a noise and disturbance to attract attention but all he felt around him was stark silence, the shimmering lights of glow worms started to turn into flashing lights if  an aircraft  descending  for arrival, he gsthered himself to regain coordination of his limbs and bidy but failed  to move , he discovered he was tightly bound to stretcher  , the pain was shooting up in waves from his legs 

Where am i he asked  himself barely audible

Where ever you are , you are alive a ripple of satisfaction ran down his body

page 303

... that very evening hamid sat with gloria  in a family cabin unwillingly listening to a one sided lecture , uninterested because of gloria herself,  exceptionally beautiful to look at but during conversations she would scowl and purse her lips  as if ready to sneeze, this woman had  killed his interest in women   , in the matter of women his feelings equalled lord byron s strange  feelings of cynical disillusionment

He was doing his best to tolerate her patiently, strict instructions from faridi were clear he was to keep an eye on gloria

What are you thinking she asked him

Did you see any evening newspaper 

I only follow morning newspapers

Last night colnol faridi s car was found on sharnaroad , on the back of. The   front seat a dagger  was stuck  and some blood stains around

Oh, it implies an attack on him but where is he

Faridi,  sighed hamid long and deep i hope to find his dead body somewhere in a  river or drain by late evening

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......captain hamid stopped breathing and quickly lay down flat on his chest , the roof was completely flat , his caution  saved him from being seen from down beliw , though the night was absolutely pitch dark but it was clear and ooen area  and moving  silhouettes are visible too

He stayed so silent for a long while and then started crawling forward, reaching the side of the terrace he glanced diwn  over the edge, the entire yard was covered in dark  yet tge floor was visible, the distance between the floor of tge yard and the roof was barely ten feet, it was not difficult to reach the yard, then he turned to move towards a room  from its windiws blue light was casting outside, hamud oaused before the room thinking something  and then pkaced a hand on the door, the door was not licked from inside, he very slowly opened the doorand without any hesitation stepped inside, his face looked quite ugly in that blue light, thick beard  on his face  and  long moustaches stooping  on his beard

muhabbet fateh alam

.....asfand  cut off the xall and ramin s heart  filled with venom of envy, she swiftly punched the numbers of mahi , pleasantries were exchanged and she quickly began  pouring out her  hatred..what do you think , that you will succeed in  in this , never  can you win, asif is mine just mine , he belongs to no one else, her vouce was high pitched shrieky, mahi patiently heard her bitterness to the end before coolly replying  of course he is yours, who is trying to own him , but her screaming shrieking yelling did not  stop, 

But what was the point of it all

Of what

Of having a child her annoyance was  genuine

But.. mahi was about to tell her the truth when ramin cut her words in the middle  and snatched the conversation rolling on her side of the story...no ifs and buts , just listen very carefully to me she spoke on top of her highest pitch on the scale, i have just now spoken to asif he is flabberghasted  , the child could destroy our relationship completely, 

Mahi  removed the phone from her ears to look clisely at ramin doubting her mental condition, why was asif  lying, but she first had to speak with him befire clarifying the point to her

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...the first beat of the tradional dholak had officially announced the wedding mood had started, now their merriment would outlast the night,  vibrant  infectious rejoicing would fill the whole village , every morning would bring loads of new arrivals of guests, chacha ji s horse cart standing under the old  rosewood tree  happily  transferred all the lorry passengers to carry them to the wedding house on  the  gravel path, they were ujalas guests  normally but all the women folk  got involved  in showing hospitality , during the night more music more entertainment more dancing gidda  and more sleeplessnights

Taya ji  had several city acquaintances, they all were expected to reach   with their families, one was specially arriving all the way from dubai, taya ji was  going crazy  and  forcing others to  get ignited with the same weird spark   to receive his friends and families

incredible

...you are so fabulous and beautiful, people love you , everyone wants you, the thorn mournfully added everyone hates me and avoids me

The blossom spoke 

Tge hateful  desires of odious world do not matter at all, i love you and live with you all my life  unless and untill someone plucks me

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Sukrat was asked what is more cruel than death

Socrates answered life is more merciless , one has to go through pain and sufferings , death is a release

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A wealthy man was afollower if socrates,  arrogantly claimed god was great and always fulfilled all his desires  thankfully

Socrates replied he was thankful  to god multiple times because  he had no desires  at all