Sookha – An asinine blog story - Part II

Summary: Pudina Patni(PP) is a village belle in backless cholis and low waist ghagras.

That should suffice as a summary. What? You want to know more? Why don’t you just go ahead read Part I. Well, ok, I’ll write a little more in the summary.

Bhairav Pati(BP) and Pudina Patni(PP) are married off in a lavish ceremony held by PP’s step-father, Lala Kirodimal. On the suhaag raat, Lala decides to turn up at BP’s house to demand repayment on a 2 lakhs loan he had taken or risk his house being auctioned... an interrupted suhaag raat, an unconscious PP, a tied to the bed BP, lots of melodrama in between.... read on.

Fast forward to 3 years later.

Location: Amrika (US of A for those who don’t know English)

Scene: A large hospital. PP is a nurse here.

Now as a sensible reader (if you have reached this far), you would ask, how did a village belle turn into a nurse in Amrika. Well, all I have to say to you is - leave now. This story is not for sensible readers.

Hmm, so PP is a nurse. She misses her Sookhagaon, especially her backless cholis and low waist ghagras. But, they are more than compensated by the plunging necklines and rising hemlines of her nurse uniform.

There has been a major accident on the highway. An Indian man has been hit by a car and brought in seriously injured. Blood everywhere. Surprisingly, his face is unscathed except for a casually placed cut on his lower lip. He is mumbling incoherently. PP, appearing very businesslike is accompanying him while he is being wheeled into the operation theater. The OT is filled with doctors of all shapes and sizes. Just a digression, how many doctors does it take to operate on an accident victim? Anyways, so all these doctors are angrez.

PP is the only nurse in this doctor filled room. No wonder they are all sweating in this AC room. So after a lot of tinkering with pots and pans...oops I mean scalpels and scissors, the doctors declare that the man is out of danger, but has lost his memory.

Now the sensible reader (who has the impudence to stay back and read so far) asks, how did they know about the memory loss? There was no head injury, neither has the patient woken up and said Main kaun hoon? . My answer: LEAVE RIGHT NOW.

PP is witness to the operation and the pronouncement made after it. She immediately tries to get information about him. All identification papers have been burnt in the accident. She is a kind soul and decides that she will take care of this poor, memory-deprived man.

This is the second case of amnesia she had come across, so she decides to call him Doosra Aadmi - DA for short. Don’t ask which the first case was coz that’s not relevant to the story. DA recovers consciousness after a week and in a few days he is discharged from the hospital. Where does he go? Well, to PP’s house of course!

PP nurtures him and generally caters to all his whims and fancies, which include her dressing up in a skirt made of palm leaves and dancing in the room. Now, the reader must note here that DA has lost his memory, but he still is a grown man, capable of emotions, feelings and all related stuff. He has a growing fondness for PP, a fondness that has gradually turned to obsession. PP can do that to perfectly normal men, and this is DA we are talking about here. DA in his pre-accident life was a Casanova, who chased anything in skirts. (He was banned from Scotland because of this)

So, anyways, PP is also attracted to DA. Look, she is only human… an Indian… but still human. They end up having another foreplay song-n-dance... again with no extras dancing around. PP is second time unlucky...coz along comes another knock on the door.

Who could it be? Would PP and DA end what they started? Would DA recover his memory in the process? What about BP in Sookhagaon? Was he still reeling under the effect of the draught and failed suhaag raat?

For all this and more, come back for the third and concluding part of Sookha- An asinine blog story.