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KEY
-Abhijit Chakraborty
Bratyo sets to go. Last two years his heart deserved
rest but he hardly heard the sound of his heart; rather he went to the
doctor who examined his heart carefully and proposed him to take some
rest. But in his company he has been the chief architect of their
success so everybody needs him. He is a bachelor. He destroys the rules
of bachelor, not being involved in any kind of Love or lust, so he
never felt the lose. No one has ever loved him. His colleagues are
jealous about his competence. But now he decides to move on. When he was
class seven ,he wrote a poem on Rain. He recited the whole poem in his
own room and tried to hear the echo of the sound. But alas! He had not
heard it. Now he knows that the echo would be prominent among the
mountains. So he decides to leave Kolkata at last. At last he hears the
yearning of heart. The boredom of every day might kill him. He chooses
mountain to enjoy his hobby once again. His destination is Darjeeling.
Suhana has been in two separate live-together relations in
Mumbai. The first boy-friend has been less talkative and less romantic
than her and she discovered it when they spent some days at their flat
at the time when rain hit Mumbai badly. Suhana became bored, and she
knows that boredom led her to nowhere. She is a psychologist. She
preferred to move away instantly. But his second boy-friend was very
romantic but when she did not feel any romance, he became violent as he
preferred other to be same as him. So Suhana wants to go to a quiet
place where the bad dreams of her previous relationship might not touch
her. When she was nine her parents spent some days in Shimla and she
enjoyed the rain. From that day she secured her hobby in her mind that
one day she would drench in the rain amidst mountains. Because of his
Bengali connection (her mother was a Bengali), she selects Darjeeling.
Bratyo reaches Darjeeling at the mid of July, because it
would be rainy season, and he can avoid the rush. He reaches there to
amalgamate himself with Nature. He looks at the mountains drenched with
rain water. He carries some of his poetries which seems to him will be
ideal to recite and feel the echo in this atmosphere. He stays in a
semi-luxury hotel from where he could lose himself in the calmness and
quietness of mountains.
When Suhana
reaches Darjeeling, the rain welcomes her with unfolded arms of
incessant falling. The mountains are so drenched and the air was so
gloomy that she hardly takes a look to them. Suhana is happy because she
avoids the busy world of the city. She wishes to drench into the water
of rain among the mountains. She perhaps thinks it would more romantic
than she had had . She now enjoys the calmness of Nature so that she
can sit in front of herself to discuss what will be her future.
Bratyo ,in one post-rainy afternoon, tries his hobby to recite his
own poem on one of the upper hills where no one visits.He looks beside
and behind and starts with slight nervousness . His mild sound reflects
mildly among the mountains, so he gets courage to unleash his new and
enthusiastic voice of a poet. He hears the echo of his own sound and
thinks that others would be admiring him for his great poetry. Suddenly
he hears, someone is laughing like a drain. He stops his recitation and
looks. Bratyo and Suhana first meet among the mountains.
Before making any gesture the rain is suddenly coming down. Bratyo
tries to hide himself behind a tree but Suhana strecthes her happiness
further and drenches in the rain. Bratyo cannnot resist himself for
being a mere spectator when a fair lady drenches herself .it is for the
first time he sees such thing in his life. He forgets his early life
where he has been denied by any loving proposal from a lady. He moves
towards her. He standing beside her and then starts to drench. It is a
romantic scene but both of them are absolutely unknown to each other.
Bratyo puts aside his unromantic attitude towards woman and Suhana
becomes assiduously undeserving of what could be the outcome of the
scene.
Suddenly the rain stops and they, for the first time, feel very
uncomfortable to one another. They prefer to go downhill . Without
making any word to each other ,they start to go. But their progress has
been halted as the rain restarts once again. They find a hut where an
old man is cooking. They promptly enters into it. They watch the old man
carefully and realise that he is not only old but poor. He hardly takes
a bath in his entire life and wears a ragged and patched cloth.
The old man looks at them and says, “Welcome to this hut.”
Bratyo is surprised by the utterance of the first sentence of the old man . “Do you know us?”
The old man puts aside the kettle and tells, “May be-yes, may be-no.”
Suhana cannot undertand his the meaning of his language. “What?”
“May be I am waiting for you or you are waitng for me.Only God knows the truth.”
Bratyo
now understands the old man is a God-believer. Suhana heard that a
God-believer can be trusted,but her fashinable eyes cannot tolerate the
appearance of the old man. So she says, “ Don’t you think bathing is
necessary?”
The old man smiles and answers, “Dear,
it is not the dirt, but the beauty and love of Nature. Nature loves me
and I love her so we could not separate from each other. If you can see
my body, you will see every dirt is the sign of love. And you know love
makes you happy , don’t you?”
Bratyo and Suhana become absent-minded but utter the same words, “ Love ,happy !”
“ Do you want the key of happiness ?”
“Key!” Both are surprised but want the key badly.
“ To get the key you have to live in this hut tonight .”
They ask , “ And you?”
“
I have to go because if I were here the key will be mine. You have to
awake whole night because there will be a knocking on the door, and a
person will hand over you a key-just a key with which you can unlock
every unhappy moments and make it and lock it into happiness.”
The rain has come after a short interval.If they want to
reach to their respective hotels, the dark evening and incessant rain
force them to stay at the hut.
The two
unknown persons are looking at each other. It seems to them an
experiment with their lives. They experimented it earlier but they got
unhappiness from every corner,but now they don’t want to move back.
Their wet clothes become dry. They enter into the hut when the sun
already sets. The old man bids them good bye and starts his journey for
beauty-quest. Before leaving he makes all arrangements for their supper.
Both the persons for the first time take a big risk. But they know if
they find the key, the life will be running on their wish.
Suhana for the first time asks, “ Who are you?”
Bratyo says about his life . He has been successful in his
professional life but how the love doesn’t notice him. The unhappy story
of Suhana makes Bratyo feel the inexplicable coincidence between them.
But they are aware that the knocking could be heard in any moment.
Suddenly the weather becomes pleasantly cold and they cannot resist
themselves from sleep.
They wake up
amidst unpleasant knocking on the door. When Bratyo opens the door, a
flash of cold air suddenly disarrays him.They feel a quake ,and without
thinking a minute they leave the hut, run upward. The dark night plays
with them every moment so their journey halts a bit. They feel something
stands in front on them. They do not know whether it is tree or
something but if they want to proceed they have to cross it. Bratyo
tries first to cross but Suhana holds his hands so tight that he feels
it would not be wise to go as far as she is concerned. Suhana now feels
the heartbeat of Bratyo, and he feels the warmth of her body. They
cannot run in this darkness. They each give other the courage.
“ Don’t worry Suhana, I am with you.”
“ I know Bratyo, I know. But we could not move as long as the morning comes.”
They hear the sound of something big has been broken and fallen.
“ The old man is a liar. He thinks we will be dead tonight.”
“But How will we live?”
“Don’t
worry Suhana I am here.” Bratyo is confidently holding two hands of
Suhana amidst turmoil in the Nature. The warmth and closeness give them
peace when the cold air runs through on them. They think ,it is better
to die holding hands of one another than to run in this dark,
unknown,hilly land. Their closeness tires the eyes and they begin to
sleep.
“ Hey man, hey lady ,wake up ,wake up”
They open the eyes and surprise to see the light. They lie on the bed of the hut as the same the night before.
Bratyo is surprised to see the old man and says, “ Are we alive?”
The old man smiles a bit and answers , “ Yes. I think now you find the key.”
Suhana opens her eyes . “ No.”
The old man smiles again. “Don’t you hear and feel the knocking?”
Bratyo remembering last night incident says “But we were almost die.”
“Is it so?”
The
old man moves to the window and opens it. They all could see the first
light of the dawn falls on Kanchanjugha. Bratyo and Suhana for the first
time see the golden light on this earth. The old man turns to them and
looks at their holding hands and asks , “ Don’t you find the key of the
happiness?”
Suhana and Bratyo look at each other.
They seem to see the reflection of the golden ray in their each others
eyes. Are they realise something in each others eyes? The promise to
each other not to utter any word to public,but silently look at each
others eyes.
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