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Everyone started saying that he had gone mad. Have you gone mad? You are taking to a bird? This bird wants to talk to all of you. We were thinking he was mad, and he was thinking the same about us. Shukla : So what happened to him? Bhagwan : When the word spread, people stopped travelling in his boat. For some time he would row the boat all alone.

Later I heard that people had stoned him and driven him away from village. Bhagwan : Yes…. Bhagwan: I remember all this when I sit on that, when I sit on that park bench. And then those kids come by. Shukla : You danced? And it was fun. What was that tune…. Bhagwan starts humming a strange and starts dancing At first Shukla does not find it odd.

Then he starts getting worried and then he gets frightened. Shukla : Very good! That was fun! Come here now…. What are you doing pal, listen.. I am getting uncomfortable…. Scene 2. Bhagwan is sitting on the park bench, and seems to be talking to someone. Bhagwan : Inside the water was clean Pure cold water. Like when we are born…. SCENE 3. Pinky comes in with tea. Poonam , Shukla and Saurabh are seated. Poonam : Please have some tea. Sorry, he had some urgent work come up on his birthday. He came home very late.

Even we were very worried. Even we are meeting only today Shukla : Bhabhi, he knows everything. He is here to tell you something. Saurabh : Actually …. Saurabh looks towards Pinky. Poonam : Pinky…. Saurabh : Yes…sir is my senior. I have come with this letter from the bank. Poonam : Why?!

Why has he been suspended? He goes to work everyday. All these years he has devoted to the bank…. Saurabh : He has not been coming to the bank for nearly month…. Poonam : But every morning…I would pack his tiffin… why has he been sacked? Saurabh : Sir had actually started giving away money.

Shukla : Meaning… he was not distributing it……just to one…. Poonam : Who to? Saurabh : Bhagwan sir…? Poonam : He is not home. Tell me…. Saurabh : An old woman would come every month to collect her pension. Who knows why, Bhagwan sir started giving her rupees extra. The manager asked him how did such a mistake happen. And sir said it was not a mistake…. The manager asked — did she demand it?

Then there was a huge argument. Poonam : He is not mad…..! Scene 4. Bhagwan :. Out of habit I fumble for my future. A something is hidden somewhere kind of miracle….. Like a little cloud that always walks along. In the blaze of the sun, this little cloud is of no help. Like a spot on the palm…. A spot is lucky. And it will bring gain. Then I wish to go some place. Where the rain is born. Where the clouds are dispersed. The thumb of my faith has become so stiff. And then I think of those fate lines.

That vanished somewhere mid-way. They lay on my palm for a long time. What was their destiny? What new worlds awaited,. On the other side of these doors…. That I was never able to open….. Then I saw something strange….

I saw… the lines on my palm had expanded…suddenly…. Now what are these lines? Do these also have their own destiny? Their own doors? Much later I understood, they mean nothing. These are lines of silence. Silence- of those lines that had risen up on my palms…. But I was never able to open their doors…. Whenever a line has vanished from my palm. I feel it is this silence that ages it.

The day there is no space on the brow…. This silence will descend on to the face….. And we will grow old. SCENE- 5. Pinky is seated outside. Shukla emerges out from inside.

Shukla : He is asleep. Where is Bhabhi? Pinky : She has gone to make a phone call. Where was papa all week? Where did you find him? I just found him in the park. He was sleeping on the bench. Pinky: Meaning… he was in the park all of last week!? Shukla : No…. I had gone there earlier.. Pinky : I never told Ma. Or she would have panicked, but Uncle, Papa spoke to me a lot. Shukla : What? What did he say?

Pinky : Anything. Stories, incidents. I could not understand much, but I loved listening to him talk. He was a little scared…. Shukla : Enlightenment?

What is that? I am living all over again, like a child I am going to become a child. Shukla : What happened to him? How did this happen? Did he ever tell you why he was anxious? Pinky : He is not anxious. He is just scared. Shukla : You should have told us all this before ……Scared of what? Of whom? Pinky : Scared of contentment…. Shukla : Contentment? Pinky : Yes…fear of becoming content ….. Papa was saying that he felt content. A state that eliminates all purpose, all desires. He was saying…..

Pinky : And he would tell stories… from his childhood…. Shukla : Who…who is this Uncle? He was saying that Uncle had come to meet him. Do you know where he lives? Pinky : He lives here? Poonam enters. Poonam : Arre.. Shukla : He is inside… sleeping …….

Poonam goes inside. Shukla : Does your mother know anything about this Uncle? Pinky : She has never spoken to me about it. Poonam returns. Poonam : Oh God! Just make him well. I made an offering for him. Everything will be alright.

Shukla : No. He was asleep in the park. He was in a deep slumber. I tried hard to wake him up…then sprinkled water…. I was really scared, with the help of some people, I tool him to the doctor. It was only after that , that he came to his senses. Poonam : The doctor….. He needed to be sedated to get all the tests done Poonam: Even I went to the park yesterday……. There is a bench lying there. Shukla : And Bhabhi….. People have seen him muttering to himself……. Poonam: And the kids….? Shukla: Or he would wave a newspaper in the air.

Poonam: The kids….? Shukla : Bhabhi…. She closes her eyes, she takes a deep breath and calms herself Just last year, we went on a holiday,. Billu was there too. We made these four huge snowballs, made eyes out of marbles… Billu made one…Pinky another…. Pinky : Ma……. Poonam : Go get the photo… Beta! Shukla : Go Child … Pinky goes inside. Bhabhi…Bhabhi………who did you call? Poonam: Ah yes, I called Billu, but he never has time. I even called up his brother, thinking maybe he went to his village.

His brother told me that when he was twelve or thirteen years old, for some reason, his father had beaten him up and he had left home.

No one knows where he was for two years. And when they found him….. I tell you… it is all because of evil spirits. Shukla : Bhabhi…all this is pointless talk… Bhagwan will be fine. She comes out running. Pinky : Mummy……. Poonam : What happened….? Pinky: Papa……Papa was not asleep…he was sitting up on the bed…. What happened? And he enters looking at the album…. Every one is scared.

Bhagwan comes straight to Poonam. Bhagwan : Poonam….. What happened Poonam…. Bhagwan sees the album again and starts smiling. Bhagwan: All this is so beautiful…. Like a bird pecking on its food….. From a whole big sky, we still peck our little share of sky. If we want to, we can see a big beautiful sky, but to be able to live, we only get the piece of sky, that we have learnt to pick out from the window of our home.

Bhagwan starts laughing. Shukla : Bhagwan……. Shukla shouts. Poonam stops him …. Bhabhi…let me talk to him. This drama of his has been going on for many days now.. Shukla comes up to Bhagwan and starts talking in gibberish. Bhagwan : What are all of you saying? Shukla again tries to say something when Bhagwan interrupts What…. What language is this….. He shakes Bhagwan.

Poonam : Bhaisaab….. Bhagwan : What is all this……. Shukla : starts to shout. Bhagwan : I am not mad. Bhagwan : I am not mad………. SCENE — 6. Poonam : Namaskar……Doctor saab……I am Poonam….. But what do I tell you… he either has brain fever, or he is possessed by an evil spirit. I believe in them…. I believe in everything. If someone tells me that rubbing my nose here a hundred times will cure my husband, I am willing to do it.. Shukla : Namaskar…..

I have a small cloth store here, below his house. My friendship with him goes back a long way. What happened……. Then he said, if they carried all these burdens, they would never be able to fly… and he went away laughing. Now you tell me……. Now nobody even understands what he says and what not. Papa loved me a lot……I mean he loves me… Yes…. I did try to talk to him alone a couple of times…. When I opened that piece of paper, there were doodles on it.. I am scared I am scared of my own father.

Saurabh : Yes.. I know a lot of loonies like this. In the lot of them lose it…. Pardon me Doctor saab, you know better.. Now with every such groan, if you start distributing money, the bank will be empty in two days. In our village there was a mad man. Let me tell you one thing, Doctor saab SCENE Bhagwan comes in and behind him comes Mohan the beggar. Mohan : What boss……this is your house, right?

Bhagwan : This is really my house. Mohan: Who is Poonam? Bhagwan: She is my wife…. Mohan: No, I was asking…. Bhagwan : She must have gone somewhere.

Arre, you come inside. Mohan: No. I am a beggar. I know my place. I am fine here. Bhagwan : Ok… fine. I will just look inside and come back. He is asking Pinky something. Pinky comes out scared and Bhagwan follows her. Bhagwan: Listen child………where is your mother? What happened to you….. Bhagwan: Listen …what are you saying?! Pinky :! Mohan : Who is this? This is some beggar. Bhagwan : He understands what I say.

I just wanted to let you know that I will get cured by myself. Come here……. Mohan : Papa, you have really gone mad. You stay away from me…. Bhagwan : Please listen to me child…. Pinky runs out of the house. Bhagwan: Pinky…. What was she saying? Mohan : I am going to come back with Ma………ma….. Mohan : She was so frightened he starts laughing. Bhagwan : Why are you laughing? Mohan : Your game is up….

Mohan : Return? You are right here…. Bhagwan : That is what I want to explain my family.. And I want that…when Poonam comes back here…I want you to tell her once that I am trying…. And if they think this is some illness … only I can cure it. Mohan : Look. I will try…. By the way…what happened to you? Pardon me, it is making me laugh, but I really want to know. Bhagwan : You know something….. Everyday I would think that if I were Shankar, I would definitely have appeared to my father…and then what would my father have done…..

And this thought got stuck in my head. Really…what would my father have done? I kept thinking of this for many months and roamed around with my father and finally, one day I asked him…. But I wanted an answer. One day he got really angry and beat me up… a lot…but the question still remained unanswered.

So after a few days I ran away from home. My family tells me that I was missing for two years and later I was admitted to a mental hospital for a while, and they say, that I had forgotten everything…meaning, I had become alright. Mohan : Were you alright then….? But actually, the dirt is all right there, outside the house and in hiding in corners, lying in wait. Then, at that very moment, this line grabbed me tight.. That was the first time I went and sat down on that park bench.

After a while, I stopped sweating. I straightened my shoulders and opened out my arms as if I had just spotted a long lost friend and wanted to embrace him. As if someone had scrubbed everything hard with soap……the roads…the garbage cab Mohan : Lines..? Bhagwan : Lines….. Mohan : Meaning? Bhagwan : Like in this house….. Mohan No……where are they? Bhagwan : Right now they have gone a bit blurred, because from a while now, I have been crossing my lines.. I sleep at the spot where I do my business.

People like us have to sit so much at one spot so that people begin to feel that we have sprouted there and will, one day, seep in there …wait…how do you know my name is Mohan? I have never told anyone my name till date. Nowadays I am a little angry with it…. Bhagwan : She must be on her way. Mohan: Listen….. Bhagwan: Go on. I always slurp my food with. Even now, see…my mouth is watering. Bhagwan : Can you tell me exactly, what taste you get? Mohan: Yes.. I also have the same problem…..

I am unable to describe to anyone. Mohan starts singing a song. From behind an old man baba can be seen walking in, sprinkling something along the way. He goes in. Pinky and Poonam come. Poonam : Who is this, Pinky? Bhagwan : Mohan…. Mohan : Ok …. You speak……you tell them. Mohan : uh….. Baba : Throw this dumb fellow outside! Poonam and Pinky drag Mohan outside but he runs and comes back inside again. Poonam and Pinky, catch hold of him again and throw him out. Here Bhagwan and Baba are left alone.

Bhagwan wants to get away from Baba out of fear. Baba grabs him by the hair and drags him around the house, chanting mantras. He sprinkles something on him, drags him to the centre of the stage, and slaps him.

By then Pinky and Poonam come inside. Pinky : Papa…. There is a black out. The sound of slaps is heard. The lights are back. Bhagwan is lying there unconscious while Baba, Pinky and Poonam are standing behind. Right Behind You, 2. Love Pigeon, 3. About You, and 4. How Far, How Far have found immense love from readers. Is this post helpful? Please share it with your friends and family members.

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