Uriya

Soumitra's car was moving swiftly on the black gleaming street of the city. It was night time. The light drizzle made the weather pleasant. In the month of October, the weather becomes a bit cold. Soumitra took out a cigarette from his case, lighted it and started puffing. Soumitra turned his car towards the red light area. By the way, Soumitra goes there very rarely. He has a family of his own but there is no one in the house today. All of them had gone to Kolkatta to attend the Durga Puja. Just then he reached the place where his loneliness would be forgotten. He parked his car in one corner when a middle - aged man came near him. Perhaps he was the broker for the girls.

"What should I offer you, Sir? We have all kinds"

"Is there anything new?"

"Yes Sir, only yesterday two girls have come from the village, one is absolutely untouched. Just fresh"

"Okay show me"

"See these two, Sir. One is vying with the other in beauty. ” the broker said while showing the photo.

"What is her name?" he asked pointing at a photo.

"Yes, it is Urmi; she has come to this humble place only yesterday. She has an innocent face with pleasing features and you have made the right choice, Sir"

"Okay send her to my room, tell me the deal".

"Yes, she is a fresh material, so how can I take less than ten thousand rupees, Sir?” he said sighing.

Soumitra took out the money from a bag, lying in the car, and threw the bundle in front of him saying "Send her quickly"

Soumitra was lying on a single bed in the small room of the house. A local brand of liquor was placed on the table in front of him. He put some pegs in a glass and started drinking.

Suddenly the door of the room opened and a girl entered who must have been almost twenty-two or twenty-three years old. She was so simple that anyone would have got fascinated with her. She had plain salwar suit on her body with a neatly worn long scarf.

"What do I do, Sir"The girl asked. The voice seemed familiar to Soumitra. The effect of liquor vanished. ”OMG, is she not the same Uriya?” Her voice is exactly the same. Her face had also the resemblance . The face must have changed in five years since I left that village after breaking all my relations with it.

Her simplicity was also like Uriya, attracting him towards her. Courageously, Soumitra called her as 'Uriya' when she got surprised. She could not speak for a while. By her wide opened eyes and sweating face, Soumitra had understood that she was none other than his own Uriya.

"What happened? Why don't you say something?" Soumitra said shaking her.

"Soumitra Babu, I was definitely your Uriya but from today my future is going to change. From today my body will be sold for money. Like a dead animal my body will be scratched and squeezed. Then why would you call a shit like me as your Uriya?” Urmi said while sobbing.

"How did this happen Uriya? How did you come here? What happened to you in the village? Tell me, my heart is breaking. "Soumitra said encouraging Uriya.

"Soumitra Babu, who has changed the destiny till date so as to change mine, did you not take a pledge to change my fate? See where have I reached today? I was never blessed by fortune. You proposed to my father about my marriage and how much uproar it had created. “She is from a lower caste; we belong to the landlord family. She is not a suitable match to you. She suffers for her Karma . Why do you bother to break your head for her well being”. So much was talked against me All my dreams had got shattered just then which you had shown me with open eyes. Then you were married to a noble family. You came to this city breaking your relationship with the village and relatives. After your leaving, your landlord father held me responsible for your separation from the family.

My father was abused and tortured in every way. I do not even know what all was said. The Panchalat stopped every fertility given to us. After some days my father passed away. How would I have lived in the village when everybody refused to give me work or shelter. Now tell me Soumitra Babu how I could have managed my living. One night I left that village and came here to the city where I met Murari . The same Murari who has sent me to you. l was not educated to get a work. So I surrendered to my fate

"You have passed through such hardships but never kept me informed. You have alienated from me Uriya. Oh what if you are not married, my love is not less for you than what it was before".

"How could I have informed you, Soumitra Babu, who knew your whereabouts? I knew that I would leave this world without seeing you".

"Don't say this silly girl" saying this Soumitra took Urmi in tight embrace. Both of them were feeling infinite happiness. Soumitra, who was tied to Urmi by his arms, lost in the memories of the past

How they played together in their childhood? Urmi's father used to work in our house. So Urmi also used to come with him. Everyone used to call her Urmi, but I was the only one who used to tease her by calling her Uriya but slowly she started to like it. We did not know how we grew up as young adult. How the game with dolls turned into love. Both had dreamed alike- wonderful dreams. They lived in the world of dreams only. But one day the egoistic father, dreaming of high family, lit the funeral pyre of their dreams.

Suddenly, some knocking sound on the door disturbed Soumitra's sleep. It was three O'clock in the morning.

”Let us go home. I shall not allow you to be at this place”. Soumitra said holding Urmi’s hands.

"I can not go with you Soumitra Babu; you have a happy family . Why do you want to set fire to it by taking an unfortunate woman like me there?"

"No Uriya, I cannot leave you in this condition. My love is not so selfish. If I could not do anything for you, what is the use of my being?"

"Okay Soumitra Babu, come tomorrow. I will not disappoint you tomorrow. ”

Soumitra's second day was spent restlessly. In the evening he came to Urmi’s room at the appointed time.  The door was open. Urmi was sitting attired as a bride on a bed in the front.

"What's this, Urmi? I have come to get you" Soumitra said.

“Soumitra Babu, would you do me a favor? I shall leave this place permanently. ”

“Okay please let me know what I should do?”

“Would you apply vermilion on the partition of my bare forehead?”Urmi showed the box of vermilion, kept on her palm to Soumitra.

“You are a silly girl” saying this Soumitra took some vermilion from the box and applied on her forehead turning her into a married woman.

"You have made my love immortal, Soumitra Babu. Now I shall be able to go comfortably by becoming your bride. You had said that you cannot see me at this place. Now I am ready to leave."

“Come on then, why do we delay"

"Excuse me, Soumitra; I am not going with you. I am going to my father. He wanted to see me as a bride, so I did. " Saying this, Urmi opened both her hands, from which fell the vial of poison which went rolling on one side.

Keeping her head on Soumitra's lap, Uriya was smiling invincibly on her victory and the tearful tears coming from Somitra's eyes were anointing that great soul.

THE END

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★★★★★ 

Romance

© Raghav Dubey

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