Ye Hasin Vadiyan - Novels
by અક્ષર પુજારા 
in
English Moral Stories
The microphone faced Padmaja as she bent a little in the front to address the crowd,
‘We have all gathered here to witness… a union of genius. The Genius, as it is known, rests with us. It does not truly ...Read Moreto the arts of scientific reasoning, as one may argue. The True Genius Lies ten folds beneath our intellect, in the jiva, dwelling in our body. Science is the jnan of the brain, while the knowledge of our intellect…
Far from this all neo-political nonsense, the brain of Padmaja was currently in a whirlwind, whirlwind that caught her in the year 1992. It was fate. Fate was why she was here, in Nainital, far beyond all her demons. And it was fate, which intertwined her with Him—past tense, second person singular.
Padmaja was the head of “comparative religion” (a subject, mind you, in Nainital’s largest and most expensive university) and was giving a lecture to a bunch of pseudo- pundits. She smiled, as the cameras flashed on her gorgeous saree.
Padmaja was growing worried. Her son was at home, no doubt with her sister, but… the call she answered today had her glancing nervously throughout the room.
Episode 1 The microphone faced Padmaja as she bent a little in the front to address the crowd, ‘We have all gathered here to witness… a union of genius. The Genius, as it is known, rests with us. It ...Read Morenot truly belong to the arts of scientific reasoning, as one may argue. The True Genius Lies ten folds beneath our intellect, in the jiva, dwelling in our body. Science is the jnan of the brain, while the knowledge of our intellect… Far from this all neo-political nonsense, the brain of Padmaja was currently in a whirlwind, whirlwind that caught
Episode 2 What the reporter and Kali believed had been partly true. The son of Sengupta was having an affair, not with Padmaja, but with her younger sister Kena. Kena was 21, and much of her life had been ...Read Morearound her sister’s son, Anant, who was sleeping silently in his cot, a linen blanket draped till his chin, far away from his mother. Kena, meanwhile, was kissing her boyfriend. Reyansh, the son of Lokesh, met Kena during her sister’s birthday party at the university. Lokesh had no intention of visiting, as he and Padmaja crossed the boundaries from friends
Episode 3 Reyansh came out of the under-lit room, with his hands in the air, and horror in his eyes. He had never seen a real gun before. They had one of them at their home, but he didn’t ...Read Morewhere it was. They never raised a conversation about it. Now he wondered why they didn’t. The gun must’ve been real. If it hadn’t been, then it was a good second copy. Or maybe a third copy. ‘Who are you?’ The lady in the black and charcoal grey saree demanded. ‘I know who he is. Put the gun down.’ ‘Who
