A Medical Romance

Chapter Four

6th May 1991
6:00 am
Ma, it is going to rain hard, look, somebody has got up early. How come, brother you so early, Huh, going college, I guess…Well, we shall see how far this goes. Ma, don’t blame me for the changes that happen…

Krish, gives one tight look at her sister and starts to chase her as she runs away from his clutches as he tries to shackle her for whatever she blabbered now.

Both, mom and dad are watching this from their respective places with a smile on to their lips.

Rangarajan, a business man, is a contended man, with his wife Charulata and his two kids, a son and a daughter. The son is joining the medical college and the girl who is a darling of all three is in pre-degree.

Both the kids has been given all they have asked for and the things that they could vouch for. The family has been a fun-loving one and bonded together.

Rangarajan and Charulata have been married for almost 27 years now and they are happy with themselves. Ranga [will call him so], has seen a lot of ups and downs in his life and at all that times, Lata [will call her so] has been a pillar of support, running the family and educating the children.

Theirs had been a formal arranged marriage, bridal seeing, within next few days of marriage and a new life begins. Nothing was in their hands; they had everything detailed out by their parents and just followed suit. The led a happy and contended life from the time of nuptial bond and kept things to themselves in suffering and enjoyment.

His children were born, he did not know their burden, his home was suffering, he did not know the burden, his son grew up, he did not know the burden, his daughter grew up he did not know the burden. He made money and worried about his business and built an empire, now, he relaxes and enjoys the pleasures of life. He knew he missed his son and daughters growing up years. He compensates for that now, with spending as much time as he can.

Krish has a best friend in his dad and his mother is like a sister, guide and philosopher to him telling him and correcting him whenever he made mistakes. His mother’s strict and regular watch over him enables him to grow into a responsible child and make up a goal of his own. His realization, his dream, to be a human doctor, is to come true. His stepping into the life is all set to begin.

Krish is so fond of his little sister, Neha. If she wants his life he would give it to her. He cannot see anything troubling her and always guarded her like a hawk that hovers over its prey. He buys her gifts and entertains her once a week taking her to all the places she wants to go, he takes her to the movies she wants to see, he brings her the books she wants to read, he gets her the things that she wishes for and treats her life a princess and always ready for her to peck and pinch him.

This family is nice family that is closely knit and lives in harmony within and with the relations outside.

It is a great pleasure to see the brother and sister fight with each other and run around the house. The house is a beautiful little villa that is spread on an area of 4800 square feet, with ample space between and around the house, with a beautifully drawn lawns and garden that is so spectacular watch.

It has a huge gate with a big compound wall, with electrified wires. The gate opens to a pathway, both the sides of the pathway has nice different colored flowers adorning the way. The pathway leads to a plush French Connection doorway, which opens to the wide visiting hall-cum-living room, adequately decorated with ample lighting and sofas and tea tables.

The right side of the living room leads to the kitchen in one corner and the back yard on the other corner. The bedrooms, the guest room, and a balcony open on the first floor and the stairway beautifully verges into two approaches from the center of the dinning space.

Both the kid’s room is painted in the same crimson color and the master bedroom has the light cream colored walls, the guest room is painted in beige. Everything in that house had an aesthetic sense to it adding beauty to the people living in it.

This grown up lad, Krish hasn’t got up early to his school and every morning his mother has to cajole him out of bed to get him ready for his business and leave home. But, today seems a different day, not only has he got up early.

He starts his bike and goes zoom on it to college, in the French colonization city, Pondicherry. He is enrolled into JIPMER Medical College. He passes through several streets, buses, cars, lorries and reaches his destination. The entrance of the college welcomes him with flowers of different color fallen from the trees spread across the pathway.


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