Punyasloke Bose

Tragedy

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Punyasloke Bose

Tragedy

Unequal Relationship

Unequal Relationship

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Agni came out of his office and walked towards his small cottage. He had been posted as a district engineer in the village of Chandipur. In recent times there had been a spate of cyclonic disturbances leading to lot of flooding and water logging in this village of Chandipur. Due to much abundance of flow of water, agricultural productivity was being hampered. Agni an expert in storm water management had been expressly assigned this position in Chandipur to find a solution to this natural calamity. Agni was young and unmarried. But he had a girl friend Rakhi in his native town with whom he had a long term relationship. They had planned to marry soon.


Agni stayed alone in his cottage and had to cook food otherwise he would have to go hungry. However seeing Agni's plight with cooking, his office peon Raghu had deputed his daughter Rani to cook his boss's food. Rani was young and energetic and bubbly. She could cook well and Agni was very satisfied with the food that was served to him. Slowly, Agni became dependent more on Rani not only for his food but other things also. Rani would wash his clothes and iron it. On holidays when Agni stayed back and not visit his home town, Rani gave him company. She had lot of stories in her kitty and entertained Agni with them. Agni also enjoyed company in the solitude. Unknowingly, a friendship was struck between them and it became so strong that on purpose, Agni stayed back in some of the weekends.


Rakhi used to wait patiently for the weekends to see Agni and talk to him. After getting his job at Chandipur, Rakhi was seeing less and less of Agni. She felt bored and sometimes a feeling of insecurity crept over her. She began to doubt that what attraction drew Agni more to Chandipur than his hometown and Rakhi.

Then on one occasion Rakhi decided to accompany Agni to Chandipur and verify for her self the reason of his absence in the weekends. She didn't listen to Agni's reasoning and excuses but purposefully visit Chandipur to get a first hand knowledge of developments. 

There what Rakhi saw confirmed her worst fears. She knew that she must act soon otherwise she would lose Agni forever. The only way Agni could be drawn from Chandipur was to transfer him away from here. Rakhi's father was working in the government secretariat. With his influence and help, Rakhi managed a transfer order for Agni. But though Agni was shifted from Chandipur but he was given posting to another small village rather than his hometown. Because, Agni was a storm water managing expert and his expertise was needed in the villages. Rani was heart broken at her master's (Agni's) transfer.


But when she came to know that her master was shifted to another small village named Kalipur, she was delighted. Because in Kalipur her maternal aunty lived and she loved her very much. So very soon Rani landed at Kalipur and surprised Agni by presenting him with her signature dishes. Both were overjoyed to see each other.

Then again Rakhi found that Agni was not coming home for the weekends. This time she became desperate and knew to act swiftly to secure her future.


So Rakhi came down to Kalipur and took time out to face Rani. She gave her a severe dressing down and scolded and chided her with her full throated expletives. She asked Rani to think of her audacity to be dreaming of a relationship with a district engineer being herself the daughter of a humble peon. This was an unequal relationship and could not be accepted in the social circles was the reason given by Rakhi.

But Rani was now too much obsessed with Agni and started dreaming of a life together in the future. Rakhi was also getting restless and annoyed seeing the posseiveness of Rani. So in the utmost desperation both started of thinking in taking extreme measures. Both had hired goons to eliminate the respective lady paramours.


Agni had been observing keenly the unfolding of events of both the women in his life. He had to stop the blind hate and put an end to this plan of annihilation and taking of this extreme step.

So one day when the hired goons were on the prowl to seek out their enemy, Agni came in between them and tried to pacify them. An argument ensued leading to a physical fight with hands and legs. Someone in the melee fired a couple of rounds of bullets. One bullet hit directly Agni in the chest. He fell down unconscious. Later he was shifted to the hospital where his condition worsened. The two ladies in his life started praying and fasting to their own Gods. It took many months of patience and prayers to help revive and bring Agni to life. Both women then claimed it was due to her devotion and faith which had brought back Agni. So an argument ensued. Agni was perplexed as to how to get rid of this situation.

Then a divine situation which came in Agni's way saved him. Due to falling security conditions in the country's border, the armed forces were recruiting young, dynamic and dedicated officers. Agni applied and got selected and moved away to the border, bag and baggage to serve the motherland leaving behind his two warring lady loves.


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