The month of April ended wonderfully for me. As usual I went a-travelling to Purnea, Bihar. This time the purpose was to document and undertake a qualitative research of an ongoing Mother's Literacy project.
Naturally how the program is running, what do mother's have to say about it etc are going to be part of the report that I hope I would be able to come up with.
Now during the course of my stay in Purnea, I got into a bit of a squabble, it was rather mature because I was really unable to 'carpe diem' as it were and therefore was left mostly frustrated with my sheer inability already. Since I more often than not find a way to vent my anger, this time around, my beloved took the beating. I was deeply saddened at such a peculiar disposition, however, I feel perhaps, that my love for this man concerned is bigger, larger than day to day work squabbles and so we kiss and make up...
My next best bet was to pray to the Indian scriptures that maybe, that Karma may get back at this person concerned and what many would consider to be the ideal case is if I were to witness such benevolence played out infront of my eyes.
As providence would have it, the above mentioned person was going to pay and pay oh so dearly for the much unwonted remarks of just a few hours before. She along with another were to undertake a train trip homeward bound to Delhi from Purnea. Their tickets were wait-listed-but most believed it would be confirmed by the hour of their travel. Arriving on the platform, with the train poised to leave, She checked the lists frantically to ensure the tickets were confirmed and they had proper seats...Karma be praised...there were no such confirmed seats and neither did their names show up on this list.
Return they must, it was now much more than merely an insult meted out by fate if they were to return to the hotel room in Purnea, so they paid for a sleeper class ticket and shared a single seat.
For the uninitiated, train rides of such kinds are particularly tedious- they last for more than 24 hours where you feel like you could set up shop right there. Over and above that if you did not get a place to sleep it is just painful...I was gleeful, joyous most definitely when I heard the occurence of this.
Its been 3 days to the event and I do not regret one bit of my feeling happy when I saw Karma play itself out right infront of me. I am quite certain that the bitches and bastards of this little limited world of mine would have gleed sometime in such fate that befell me. I am certain I am not immune to it in the future...but why not be atleast a clandestine bitch when I can...!
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