NIRUPAMA

(Some Secrets May Better Remain Secrets Forever)

'I cannot bear this', 'I want to pluck my eyes out' only these two sentences were the clues which the late girl Nirupama left in writing one on a wall and one in a book quite unintentionally and involuntarily to know about the reason for her committing suicide. Her father Ranganath, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka along with Nirupama's friend Sukanya pretty well understood that Nirupama did not want the said secret to be known to anyone else. But since her father Ranganath hell bent upon knowing about the said secret, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka ruthlessly investigated the matter only to unearth the said ghastly, shocking and astounding secret which the dead girl terribly wished to keep only with her in her grave forever.

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"When did you have come?" Ranganath asked Smaran.

"Just ten minutes or so back." Smaran replied to him. "I am feeling very happy to see you here Niranjan. In fact I want to come to you again."

"I am also feeling happy to find you here. Is there anything particular that you wanted to see me?"

"Nothing particular in fact." Smaran nodded his head in negation. "I just want to talk with you to know if you remember anything new to tell me."

"Unfortunately no. I did not remember anything new so far." Niranjan said and slumped himself beside Smaran in the sofa. "So you people are still very much trying to know about that reason." He wearily said again.

"Yes, we are."Smaran said. "Until Ranganath asks me to stop this, I am not going to. I must know about the truth." Looking at Ranghanth who sat opposite to them in the chair Smaran said.

"I am not going to say a 'no' to it. I hundred percent want to know the truth." Ranganath said.

"Alright." Niranjan nodded his head. Before he was saying anything more, Nirmala came there with coffee cups on a tray. She might have known that Ranganath and Niranjan also have come, she took three coffee cups in a try and they took the coffee cups from it.

"You have almost stopped coming to our home." Nirmala said accusingly looking at Niranjan.

"I have become busy in something else. Otherwise I would have come here." Niranjan said.

"Niru is about to come in one or two days. She asked about you." Nirmala said.

The other three exchanged stealthy looks on hearing that.

"I see." Niranjan nodded his head. "What else she said?" he asked her.

"The usual." Nirmala said. "She still wants to stay there. But I asked her strongly to come home."

"Why? What would be the problem if she stays with her aunt for some more days?" Niranjan asked her.

"I cannot pass my time here without her." Nirmala said. "You know how she would be in the home always."

"I know about that." Niranjan nodded his head. "She is a very active girl."

There was few seconds of silence "I do go to the market to fetch the necessary groceries etc." Looking at Ranganath, Nirmala said.

"As you wish. I have no objection whatsoever." Ranganath said.

Then she left the house taking a bag and money purse with her.

"This is the way she is behaving. I just don't know what to do." Ranganath said looking at the way that Nirmala went out.

"Really very pathetic!" Smaran said.

"In one way she is fortunate. She is not suffering as I am suffering now."

"She is suffering deep inside of her."Niranjan said. "She knew the truth that her daughter is no more. It is all just make up. She is forcing herself to imagine that her daughter is still alive."

"But why? Why did not she take that in the way I had taken it? Nirupama is just like the same to both of us."

"No." Niranjan nodded his head in negation. "She is more to her than to you. That is why her mind is quite reluctant to accept the fact."

"Is there no chance at all that she comes to her senses and realizes that her daughter is no more?" Ranganath asked him.

"The tricky part in this and I already said to you about it." Niranjan said. "She knows the truth. She is forcing this imagination on her."

"Is it is comfortable to imagine like that? Can I also imagine as she is doing and be comfortable?" Ranganath asked him.

"I cannot advise you to do anything like that Ranga. That is not wise." Niranjan said. "It is indeed very difficult to say why your wife preferred this route. But I can say again she is suffering hell deep inside her."

"Then why don't you make her realize or force her to agree upon the reality?" Ranganath asked him.

Niranjan did not say anything to that.

"My God! Niranjan, you are a psychologist. If you want you sure can do that. Why not you prefer to do something like that?" Ranganath asked him again.

Niranjan still did not prefer to say anything.

"You are a close relative also to her. You are saying that she is suffering hell deep inside her. Then why don't you stop her suffering so?"

"If I do so, I introduce her to another type of hell." Niranjan said. "She has to accept the reality which is even more hard. She is not in a position now to accept the truth. She is suffering deep inside of course, but she cannot accept the truth at once."

"It seems there is a method to it." Smaran said. "You are thinking on that line. Is it is not?"

"You are right." Looking appreciatively at Smaran, Niranjan said. "Yes. There is a method and manner to make her accept the truth little by little and stop imagining like that."

"Then why did not you start it yet?" Ranganath asked him with irritation.

"Ranga don't feel anxiousness and iritation for each and everything." Niranjan said to him. "As you said Nirmala is a close relative to me. I also have love and affection on her and I am also feeling a lot bad for her suffering like this. I just have seen all these days that she may herself put a stop to her imagination." He paused for a moment and then said again. "It appears now that she would not do such type of a thing. I shall start my session as soon as possible."

"I am glad on hearing about this." Ranganath said.

"Upto where you people have come in your detection?" after some silence looking at Smaran, Niranjan asked.

"We have got some leads but it appears we still have to do a lot." Then Smaran explained to him about the writing on the wall of Sukanya's house and the writing in the library book.

"Very interesting! Why she had written it like that?" with a genuine surprise expression in his face, Niranjan asked.

"We don't know." Smaran said. "I just want to ask you whether you can say anything about it. She might have mentioned... you have forgotten all these days to tell...."

"I cannot bear this." Niranjan paused for a moment mentioning that. "What that girl could not bear?"

"We are totally lost. We cannot guess anything at all." Ranganath said.

"I too cannot think of any." Niranjan paused for few seconds. "Her next writing "Want to pluck my eyes out" Niranjan thoughtfully said. "Why anyone does want to pluck one's eyes out?"

"That is what we too cannot understand. It seems you too have no clue whatsoever on that also," Smaran said.

"You are right." Niranjan nodded his head.

"Why Niru left such puzzles to us?" Ranganath said.

"It is not a puzzle and Niru did not suppose that it should be found out by anyone else either." Niranjan said. "It is something that she involuntarily expressed herself out in such a way I think."

"You are absolutely right." Smaran said.

"One thing I can say sure for here." Niranjan said. "Whatever it may be that compelled her to commit suicide, Nirupama did not like it to be known to anyone else."

"You are right once again" Smaran nodded his head

"If it is the case, why don't you people leave it just like that? What we are going to get by knowing about it? We cannot get our Nirupama back anyhow."

"Never" Ranganath said. "Whether Nirupama likes it or not, I must know the truth why she had committed suicide." The firmness in his voice surprised Niranajan and Smaran also.

"Its alright then." Niranjan nodded his head. "I am always ready to provide whatever help you people do want to know about it."

"Thank you very much for that" Smaran said.

***

"Sorry, mom. I just could not phone to you for the last two days" Menaka apologetically said. She herself phoned to her mother with the fear otherwise her mother phone to her and scold her profoundly.

"Alright, it does not matter." Her mother said. "Is everything okay to you there?" she asked.

"More than okay in fact." Menaka said. "You just don't know how nice these old couple are to me. They are really feeling as if I am their own daughter."

"Menaka, I want to come and see those old couple. Is it will be okay to them?" Manaka's mother asked her.

"Mom, what you are talking? I cannot understand at all." Menaka surprisingly said.

"I came to know everything through Smaran. I don't know why but I am feeling overwhelming pity over those couple. If you think that those couple don't think otherwise I shall sure come there and talk with them."

"What is there to think otherwise? These old people indeed need all the outside help in fact." Menaka said. "When you can come here anyhow?"

"On this day itself. First I talk with Smaran and see what he says" Menaka's mother said.

"That is not going to be a problem. You may come straight without informing him either. But the most important thing is, the old woman still thinking her daughter is alive. So you have to talk and behave with her accordingly."

"That is what made me feel more and more pity." Her mother said. "Alright I do behave cautiously and as you asked. Moreover...." She paused for a moment and then said "I say that I have to go out of station again."

"Why....why do you need to say like that?" Menaka once again felt surprise.

"Smaran said to me that he made you stay there saying I am out of station. So I am thinking that it would be wise and more convenient if I say I have to go out of station again"

Menaka laughed and said. "You are really fantastic! I have forgotten about it completely. Okay I do wait for you here."

Then after saying bye Menaka hung up. It was still surprising to her that her mother has chosen to come there to see the old people.

As it was becoming evening six in the evening, Menaka's mother Madhuri came there. Menaka introduced her mother to Ranganath and Nirmala.

"We are so glad that you have come to our house in this way." Ranganath said.

"How nice? You are also as beautiful as Menaka" Nirmala said.

"Thank you very much" Madhuri's face beamed with happiness. "Menaka told a lot about you both. I am very happy that you both are looking after Menaka such nicely. I have to go out of station on important business work and I really worried where to put my daughter as my brother also seldom stays at home. We are relaxed that you are treating Menaka as if she is your daughter. I hope that Menaka is not creating any trouble to you both. She is little naughty."

"Not at all, not at all." Nirmala hastily said." She is the best girl we came to know so far. Comparing with Menaka my daughter is more naughty. She is not now at home. If she is, she likes Menaka a lot. They both can become good friends."

"I think you both would have no problem whatsoever to have Menaka in your home some more time as I need to go out of station again."

"You need not say it at all so." Nirmala said. "If she wants she can stay with us forever. I started liking her a lot. Even after Niru's coming to home also there is no necessity to her to go anywhere. I already said, they both can become good friends."

"What my wife said is absolutely true. Don't worry about anything at all and let Menaka stay in our home as long as she wants." Ranganath said.

"Mom, would you like to come and see my room?" Menaka asked her.

"Sure, why not you lead me there?" Madhuri said.

(..........to be continued)

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