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Namrata ‘s Second Innings and The Tricolour

Namrata ‘s Second Innings and The Tricolour

Trinity Rai
Namrata and The Tricolour

Amidst emotional turmoil, she finds solace and strength through meditation, the teachings of Lord Shiva, and the symbolism of India’s struggle for freedom. Namrata embraces a new life of independence, leaving behind the shadows of betrayal and prioritizing her own happiness and self-respect.

Namrata lay in her bed, her head spinning and her mind racing as usual trying to sink in all the abuses she had had to face all alone that evening.

Everything had been going on so well till then, and Namrata ‘s life had been gliding so smoothly. The family was happy, her brother had always been close to her, or so Namrata had thought at least, and home strife seemed an unthinkable possibility. Besides now that his brother, Kamal Rai and his wife had their first baby who was now seven, and she rolled all over Nammu whenever she was at home back from office. Things seemed homely, loving even… or so she had thought… till the truth dawned upon and drowned her. Almost drowned her.

The strange thing was, just before the family cloudburst, Namrata had had a premonition about it; why, she could not put her finger on it. It was as if she already knew what would happen to her and had dreaded that moment, but in her denial mode, she still thought it was just her negative feeling, unless it played out for real and all that she had worked for these past few years would get gutted in front of her very eyes.

Namrata Sharma the tall, slim, dusky athletic beauty had lost her brother, the last member of her family after her parents died within a short space of a few years. But he was thriving well in real life getting a promotion and getting lambasted by his materialistic and uncannily cunning wife. Nammu always knew she was extremely intelligent, but never thought her to be so ruthlessly self-centred.

Kamal’s only sister had lost him to his greed for the family properties and heirlooms; he had lost the only woman who loved him dearly after their late mother passed away due to cancer way back in 2020. Their father had died a few years ago. Things started changing in June 26 of 2024 and here was our heroine Nammu lying wondering on her bed; she had been in this position since the previous night, when she fought with her only brother and realised that he had never even loved her. Namrata had, in short, been living in delusion. But even as she fidgeted in her bed, once in a long while, she told herself that may be it was her sister-in-law had used her almost hypnotic sexuality to use him against her. But that thought vanished quicker than the moisture on the soil in the flower tubs hanging from their veranda. She got back to her own recently won clarity over her vague feelings of love and belonging. Her sister-n-law was salivating for her properties, not just her home but even the jewellery her mother had bequeathed her, and she now could make sense of why her sister-in-law and her brother had been spreading canards that she was insane.

When she had first heard of this from one of her close friends, she could not make any sense, and did not even know if her friend was joking or was telling her the truth. That is what happened on the night of June 26, when after hearing this from many others she had confronted the sexy woman and her spineless husband. And all kind of unthinkable accusations flew across their living room.

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She forced herself to get up and then she meditated for an hour on Lord Shiva, and finally she got her energy back. She felt good now, for Shiva is the source of all power and all clarity, unperturbed by the universe going topsy turvy.

The forty-year-old architect decided to let go of her selfish brother and walk out of his life forever. It was all so sudden, this clarity, that it seemed to her to by The Neelkantha’s injunction to her, for till the night before, she had never ever contemplated that. Her housing flat in Development Area looked tiny but peaceful, it was her refuge… there, she could insulate herself from the rest of the world and spend all the time trying to create a tiny home and she was successful in creating a new universe. and she herself was the Sun there.

No longer would she be her own last priority, as she ruled this universe and now chose a very tiny circle of friends and family that she allowed to populate her universe.

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As she walked on MG Marg the next day, she glanced up to see the gigantic Indian flag, and as it swayed magically against the azure sky, Nammu recalled the same history lessons she had been teaching the students in her school job; the history of how India – once known as the golden bird caged by British imperialists, abused and tortured.

India’s Independence Movement no longer was dry black letters in the history book. That flag—the Tricolour — gave the freedom movement a new meaning altogether for Nammu. India had also been rendered penniless and left in pathetic poverty by the British, who had looted all her wealth. But eventually, she rose to challenge that superpower and later went on to even take back her freedom.

These thoughts suddenly gave her the push, the drive she needed: if India could do it, so could she. So what if her brother had taken all her inheritance left by her trusting and naive mother? Well, she didn’t want that money back for it wasn’t hers alone, in the first place.

Nammu decided not to be hurt again; she decided that her bhai would never control her again. For once, she decided to make herself her own priority, and then looked a bit ahead at the Thakur Bari mandir, and remembered what Lord Krisna had said: everything happens for a reason and everything’s that has happened had to happen.

She had learnt her lessons on the night of June 26: now she has chosen not to be a doormat she chosen freedom. And that day she looked at the fluttering Indian flag – and much to the amusement of the passersby — saluted it, and then she smiled and realised what a bliss it is indeed to be able to breathe freedom once again.

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