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In those days of intense love, I forgot the world. We two were enough. Exactly at five in the evening, I wuld rush to my quarter and remain locked inside. Before long, she missed her period and started crying. She did not want children at least for five years! She was hardly eighteen and missed her home. As she did not know Hindi, the company of neighbours was not encouraging, but she learned the language quickly. To relieve her boredom, we bought a radio to hear radio Ceylon which was very popular. For fifteen minutes in the evening, it would broadcast south Indian film songs. She will wait for the Malayalam songs which she will write down. Just before eight in the morning, I like to hear K.L.Saighal’s song, every day. At bed time, it was old film songs in Hindi. This we never missed. Their national anthem was
indeed very sweet. She did not know cooking except rice. As I cooked meals every month for three days, when mother cannot enter the kitchen, because of “pollution”, it was my duy to do the cooking and I knew how to make “sambhar”which is liked by all. So I taught her this art. Now she knows how to make north Indian dishes as well. House keeping was unknown to both of us, resulting in our running short of money at the end of the month, when I used to borrow small sums, mostly from Vasu Nihalani, working in Accounts section. He used to bring cloths from Bombay, when he went there on official duty, and sold the pieces at Kota. Now his son is a contractor. I got more salary than him. He had any number of small kids going to school! Somehow, I was not ashamed of it. Even last night, I had a nightmare, trying to list all the people whom, I had borrowed money from! Sometimes we Keralites, working in our offices at Kota, would meet in the evenings on holidays, when gents will have drinks. Once Alex and his wife and some other family went to see the Taj Mahal at Agra, when we too joined them. We had bought a model of the TAJ, which was kept in the cloak room with other l luggage. We lost the receipt and had to produce an affidavit for claiming our articles. When we returned and opened the packet, the receipt was there in the packet of the model of the TAJ! In feb. 1964, I took her to her parents, as we had no home of our own.Once again, I became lonely.
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