yaad rafta

.... they were  close  friends since school days,  Josh  and she,  they were just friends   , their  friendship could not be  defined as girl friend  boy friend  thing,  it was  a healthy  selfies  plain simple  friendship,  wheel of time  sent them  in different areas of work,  she became a school teacher and Josh  joined a production  line  but  when they needed  help  both  would rush to support the other,  Josh  had  called her up regarding  some matter asking her to come as soon as possible for a few days a mysterious  issue had risen,  and in this case only she could help 

Bath in London is a popular area, she couldn't find out what made him call her up in the middle of the night  to come to Bath  but his  nervous tone and  disturbed  talk explained her he was going through some thing incredibly difficult and sensational 

She asked what exactly had happened 

He was  planning to make a movie on  a popular writer Jane Austin's  novels  with that he added lots of useless details she couldn't understand 

She  listened to him in silence and then  said she was with him,  he was still awake  late night  because he was worried and working on it

He didn't like  Emma calling his  project  a pass time,  it was his serious passion a choice a chance of a lifetime 

mujboori

....a drunkard  carrying an adult on his shoulders reached a railway office and  asked for one full ticket,  he was asked to buy a second ticket for the man on his shoulders,  the  stubborn man explained  it was his six year old who didn't need a full ticket 

The man at the counter  described the beard and height and weight of the  so called  child , hearing that the drunkard dropped the  man who had forgotten to  take care of his appearance 

Mushwara

An office goer spotted a youth who looked educated and not beggar like  begging for alms  scolding him for not doing some  other work instead of choosing to sit there begging,  the youth  scolded him even more furiously  for giving him silly suggestions,  he had given up his government post and making  many times more  money in a day 

from previous

....from every angle he appeared alive , at first glance he thought  it was  someone working for uncle Martin looking for something in the laboratory but his sudden disappearance  from sight  was unnerving and unreasonable,  he quickly turned the side table lamp  on and carefully surveyed the entire room,  the invador was vanished without leaving any trace,  he concluded this was not normal,  he spent the rest of the night waking up but nothing more happened to disturb his sanity,  he is one of those early larks and gets up quite early  but his uncle  was already up before him and strolling outside,  the moment uncle saw him he leapt forward eagerly 

Did you see him  asked he breathlessly 

The man with just one  arm

Yes yes absolutely 

Of course I did,  he then repeated the whole experience in the laboratory last night,  uncle Martin took him inside to discuss the situation,  they had some time before breakfast,  before he could  give his  views on the matter uncle decided to  give the details of the  situation  , , he also  got curious to know what was going on,  

Uncle began by explaining he had not slept properly for the past four years,   his health was suffering from it,  the  illusion  comes and goes  as it would  shrugging and disappearing out of sight inside the laboratory 

kata hua haath

....he was merely a small  general doctor practicing in a street  clinic who never was troubled nor illtreated by anyone  found himself  in a condition  definitely a divine   play, overnight windfall  and he became a  legal heir to surgeon Martin  inherited  all their movable and nonmoveable  properties,  it was common knowledge there were five other relatives  hoping to get all that waiting for the Martin's to die 

Uncle and aunt were regular church goers, they were staunch  faithful believers and  servants of God and volunteers of charity,  seeing how much they were spending  their  relatives  began  to calculate how much wealth they owned,  he was informed by the church pastor and family friend lawyer of his Uncle  about the will,  that  a few months just before Uncle Martin died he had called the pastor and the lawyer home and finalized the will   and legally testified and both signed  as witnesses,  like the others he too was  completely  unaware of the will, people began talking  about  Uncle  hearing of the will  though the gossip  was absolutely wrong ,  he had  recently two years ago  emotionally come closer to Uncle  , this wasn't  any  reason to will his all to him , true he had done his very best for his Uncle  but then Uncle had  left him  all his wealth unexpectedly  in turn  

from previous

....novelty general store as usual was  experiencing  peak rush of customers Abad was busy with his staff and abbu dealing with the customers,  farid would reach early morning,  Abad joined him later In the day,  both returned home together,  he dropped out from school after matric  though Farida intensely wanted him to complete his graduation at least,  Abad managed to  pass the matric somehow  and found educational line quite revolting he simply refused to study any further,  that was enough and he wanted to work,  soon enough a second general store was opened and they both managed it  , 

Abad  take care I am off to pray for the namaz , said  Farida hearing the zeher  azan giving instructions Farida put on his cap and left for the masjid ,

Gosh, Abad was kept so busy  during the rush hour  he was lost , he had forgotten how much time had passed,  he became disturbed and ten more minutes were  passed before he began winding up, he called fakhr for help, to see to the customers as he himself  would take some time off 

Restless mind is a unhappy mind  handing over his responsibility to the  age old tested  staff he too left,  his  pace was  fast covering  the way in  less time  to reach his  desired destination  as if his heart  found  the peace  , she was getting down  from the bus with a hot red face,  her temperature  flew high as she entered the side street,  Abad remained unaffected by her  annoyance,  he had  found  his precious  gem 

zindgi dhoop tum Ghana saya

...dal, who wants to eat dal, not me

  Murshid returned home  after evening  out since   morning    looking for jobs and  appearing  for interviews  , he freshened up before going to the kitchen and sit down  at a small table   as kadima heated the food for him  and served it hot , murshid was  starving  but one look at tge food killed his appetite,  he stood up  to leave  

Dear son murshid you   know  it is the  end of the  month,  frugal and honest in work  Salim had  always   lead his life in his limited income though  there were several  options to  make extra money  , he wanted his son to take up a job of  a clerk in the office  instead of staying joyless,  he could later find a better one,  murshid  had done his m com , he felt clerical side was below dignity  , he refused to accept it, , kadina was  running the  household  tightly  stretching the finances till the end of the month,  she was quite aware of her son's likes and dislikes, all she had in her kitchen was daal and it was something to  look forward to  at tge kitchen table what if that too wasn't there 

Ammi please stop  wailing  about  lack of finances  before me, he  irritated on her helplessness,  he  spent time  online  for jobs and  would appear for interviews,  he always found himself rejected  even though  he was so highly qualified 

from previous

....it was a beautiful autumn evening,  the sun shone far in the distant mountain range  casting its golden glow  over the landscape grown with trees  already  yellowing in autumn lending  its radiance to them,  several  young  boys appeared  on the road,  some  walking others riding bicycles,  returning from  playing football  , all of them  went  homewards  leaving the road  vacant.  at six   a car  entered the driveway of the judge,  a man dressed in hospital green uniform  got out from the car carrying two  heavy bags  to walk towards the porch,  he was a man of medium built  , his hair  sprinkled with  salt pepper,  fox stopped him  near the front stains and asked if he could help him in any way 

Certainly I hope so,  are you Neil 

Why do you want to know 

I am fox  and working in the courts  come from New York city to find out some missing official details 

Who wants to know  asked Neil putting down the bags 

Bar council management 

Perhaps the judge didn't want his registration done 

Management finds his silence  worrying he is a retired judge