Vyavhar Agarwal

Drama Others

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Vyavhar Agarwal

Drama Others

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Linda was the only child of her parents who parted ways seeking a divorce when she was just seven. She spent most of her growing years with her maternal grandparents who were a very sweet and caring lot.


Linda was fond of reading & spent hours in her grandfather's reading room who had an extensive collection of books thanks to his career as a journalist.


Linda dreamt of traveling to the lengths and breadths of earth to see the geographical variety it had to offer. She was a good student but never secured high grades as Linda believed in expressing what she learnt in her own words which as we know doesn't go well with most evaluators.


She passed high school & sought admission in the Romanian Institute Of Trade & Catering aiming to join the Hotel Industry which was emerging as the most promising in terms of pay. She learnt Management as well as became an Expert Cook.


Linda never allowed the young men who studied with her any chance to flirt as she believed in finding love beyond the boundaries of her Country.


Her friends carried on with their affairs asking Linda to enjoy life as it were rather than skipping it now while she was attractive & young to regret it later. But little did they know that Linda was secretly involved in a distant relationship from couple of years.


Her admirer as he chose to be acknowledged and addressed was a man in his thirties living in India, a country Linda had only heard and gathered good things about. They both met over a social network and instantly bonded & became friends thanks to their mutual interests and hobbies.


Linda spent hours exchanging mails & messages with her beloved who did the same with similar interest & enthusiasm.

Linda was certain that Prad, short for Prahlad, as she chose to address him was her soulmate & them being together was going to change her life for the best.


Post her certification, Linda was ready to bid adieu to Romania and awaiting to take a flight to India impatiently. She and Prad had chalked out the plans months in advance & it was time for Linda to set it rolling by her side.

Linda informed her estranged parents that she needed a vacation post all these years of continual studies and she would be staying in India for sometime before taking up a job.

Since none of them had any objections & knowing Linda for the headstrong person she was, her seat for a flight to Delhi, India was booked.


Prahlad was a well built, tall & handsome man, who looked attractive & intellectual. He was a Sales Trainer at a leading MNC in Gurugram. His parents, both orthodox lived in Delhi.


Prahlad ever skipped meeting them on weekends on the pretext of being laden with work cause ever since he moved to Gurugram getting him married to a girl from their community became their only goal.


Their fascination for seeing Prahlad settle with a homely girl who had all the qualifications necessary to be an obedient daughter in law grew into an obsession when accidentally Prahlad posted a few pictures of him partying with his colleagues from his office, which had some female colleagues of his dressed in western outfits & posing with Budweiser pint beer bottles in their hands as his WhatsApp story.


Such independent women wouldn't think twice before parting ways when life becomes rigid Prahlad was his mom's advice to him which ran in Prahlads being many times although he heard it just once.


A week prior to Linda's arrival, Prahlad took a long leave from his office and went to stay with his Parents in Delhi. His parents were surprised to see him arrive in his Honda City as he usually chose public transport.


At dinner time, Prahlad gathered courage to let his parents know of the guest who was arriving 5 days later and of their intentions to get married. That night seemed probably the longest night of his life to Prahlad as lights in the house didn't go off until next morning.


Prahlad was facing all the mental guerilla war tactics his parents could think of to make him alter his decision. When all of Prahlad's attempts to revive conversations failed, he booked a room in a hotel closer to Delhi Airport and left.


Holding a placard which read "Welcome Linda", in today's times, Prahlad had already proved how surreal was the effect of her arrival. Both lovebirds smiled upon glancing each other for the first time. Walking down the ramp towards the parking, both started exchanging hugs & kisses.


Upon arriving at the Hotel, Linda understood that Prad had initiated Step 1 of his part of their plan and had got the result he was certain of. She pulled Prad closer and whispered into his ears that she is happy that Prad did try seeking approval from his parents and would hope his parents approve of their marriage in the future.


The following week, both of them visited the Office Of The Registrar Of Marriages & filled up forms to get married legally. Their application was accepted & they were asked to return to the same office 1 month later to sign up & complete legal formalities.


During that time Prad and Linda went to Goa and returned on time to get their Marriage Certificate. Linda held a joint video call with both her parents & showed them the certificate who as usual had no issues with it and Prad took a picture of the marriage certificate and updated it as his WhatsApp story.


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