EPISODE 11

Two days later , back in agra , the two lovers met each others,accidently & intentionally , but did'nt exchange pleasantaries because of the misunderstanding.Thus week passed the next time he was at her farm,she was reaping dry grass from the load, reeling the hay with hay wire,arranging the hay rick in the loft.. "i have some thing important ." He was talking to her but she was busy at the hearth blowing air to burn the wood. He was repeating the same words again and again with certain intervals to see her reaction. "i love you?" She concorted her eyes with his as she came across him , the utterance being somewhat satirical, and back realing the dry grass. "i love you" She raised her head to find tears in his eyes for the first time.And she was as if she had nothing to do with him & this he thought she showed by reating the grass even after seeing his tears he repeated it continually. "why ?why ?what is the fault ?what is my fault?iam born a muslim is this my fault. Ithink it is a big boom for me.I been a born hindu, your brother would have put an end to me."he was piqued as he uttered these words & soon coughed "he would not have linked to see an opposer of religion born in his own religion.Iam saved iam a muslim.Say say something he cried aloud with paroxym.She too cried & hugged him hard."its all over i have been posted to pokhran.Do you know why?because iam a muslim.On the bias that iam a muslim & the dispute of these holy waters is related to hindus ,that there has always been hostility b/n hindus and muslims that i might give a more gloomy situation of what is hapenning here, they have astutely rejected my report , my week long hard work .The charges are over escalation of tensions in the area and the misuse of law and authority.A new person might take as much time as i took or even more & there is no gaurentee that he makes a report exactly that i made ,he may give something new -that may prove to be dangerous for all others."

She kissed him all over his face and made him lay over her lap.Her brother the master came rinsing his mouth & suddenly he watched what he could never have had .Blood came along with vomiting. Patanjali beat his haed "i must start tommarrow morning" then he coughed .He joined her brother in a hospital on his behalf.She gave him a small socket of soil as her memory to him.HEsaid he would be back very soon .He left agra for pokran ina a train. She stood on the platform looking at his waving hand disappearing in the distance.