Janani’s
nights were characterized by wet pillow, reddish swollen eyes, sleepless nights
and haunting dreams until she got that piece of letter the same night. As she
was lying sleepless on her couch dreaming of her husband who had kissed her
goodbye exactly a year back, she sensed some sound caused by an external factor
against her glossy windows. She was panic-struck as she heard the same sound striking
the window a couple more times. She hesitantly moved towards the window ensuring
that she held a weapon in her hand to attack any being that might cause her
harm. A hand peeped in dropping a piece
of paper as soon as she opened the window so as to find out what exactly caused
the sound and slipped out of Janani’s hands as she tried catching it from
inside. The letter read,
Dear Janani,
You had always been an awesome
better half of mine and a wonderful woman on earth. You had loved me, cuddled
me, hugged me and cared for me like no others did. You had always stood by my
side whenever I needed strength. You had always lent your shoulders whenever I needed
them badly. You were my greatest piece of inspiration. You always had been a
best mom on this planet for my children. You always made the family a better
place to live in. Your chest had always been my safest place on earth and above
all you always had looked after me like your son.
I am a fool to have left
a woman behind like this aloof. I know it had been so long that I have not seen
your face. I apologize for the times that I left you home alone and that I was
not there for my children. Janani I am going to put an end to all this in some
days. We will meet up at “Doshi Gardens” the coming Sunday sharp at 5PM.I would
want you to come alone. Please do bear with me for some more days.
Major.
Jagdish
Janani
read the whole letter with at most happiness and held it tightest near her
bosom. She did not know what to do and her happiness knew no bounds. She wanted
to shout on top of her voice to inform everybody that her husband is still
alive serving the country, who was believed to have decomposed under the soil a
way back as he did not return back from a secret army mission.
Janani spread the smile
all over and thought what needs to be done next. She sat calm resting her back
on the wall and decided to take the help of Jagdish’s colleague Mr. Jaspal
Singh who as well works for the Indian Army. She called him and told all that
happened few moments back. Jaspal lent his ears to all that Janani told,
promised her that he would accompany her and devised her plans for Sunday.
Jaspal knew that Jagdish
was on a secret mission and so he decided to take a group of Jawans with him so
as to prevent any kind of wrong from happening. Everything was set right by
Jaspal and the same was communicated to Janani so as to give her innate
confidence and boost up.
TIME:
SUNDAY, 4:30PM, LOCATION: DOSHI GARDENS
Janani was so excited
and extremely enthusiastic for the fact that she was going to meet her long
awaited husband who went missing for more than a year. She dressed herself up
in one of his favourite choices of Saree and looked gorgeously awesome as all
of her worries and grieves are going to come to an end with this meet. She was
glowing in the attire. Janani was accompanied by Jaspal Singh and six other
army jawans so as to keep things right and intact.
They arrived at the venue
before time and found the place to be exactly opposite of the name it bore. This
construction was located at the outskirts of the city and had very limited
human access. It was a very huge construction that had about eight storeys which
was incomplete and had been stopped due to a problem among the contractors. This
was one of biggest constructions of the city that was left incomplete for ages
now. People even suspected illegal activities to happen as there was hardly anybody.
Janani wore a panic look
as she began steeping into the arena. She gulped as and when she put a step
forward. Jaspal Singh asked her to proceed as per the plan and told that they
would stand hidden behind the pillars so as to prevent any kind of wrong
happenings. Jaspal Singh idea was to prevent them from any kind of terrorist
attack on the couple as Jagdish was on a secret mission. He was of a thought
that the terrorists might track Jagdish’s move and might attack him and so he
had come with a battalion.
Janani entered the
seventh floor after scrutinising all the six floors with overwhelming curiosity
to take a look at her husband. She could see nobody as she approached the
middle of the floor. She carefully looked in all possible directions so as to
spot her husband out. Skimming through all the pillars, she found a body
obstructing the sun rays from entering the site and causing a shadow on the
floor. She could make out from the physique of the shadow that it was her
husband and she started running towards the pillar. Hearing the melodies from
her anklet Jagdish ran towards her revealing himself from behind the pillar. Janani
could not control her tears and she pounced on him without being able to control
her love for him. They both hugged each other so tightly that even air couldn’t
pass through the gap. They exchanged naughty pats and kisses before they
started speaking anything.
Meanwhile, Jaspal set
his force ready to face any kind of attacks on them. The jawans positioned
themselves each in a floor spying all possible directions to prevent something
wrong from happening. A bullet from nowhere penetrated the obstacle to hit right
shoulders of Jagdish. Bullet penetrated his flesh and caused constant egress of
blood from his body. He pushed Janani behind the near-by pillar so as to
protect her from the attacks. Badly bleeding Jagdish started firing back at the
terrorists who came into the floor from nowhere. He shot a couple of terrorist
right on their foreheads with at most accuracy while the jawans rushed to the
floor hearing the gun shots. Both the terrorists and the jawans exchanged fires
and finally the jawans put an end to four more terrorists while only one was
left out.
The loner of the
terrorists hid himself somewhere so as to make the jawans look out for him. A section
of the jawans helped Jagdish with his first aid while the others actually
looked out for him. In no time, Jagdish recovered from his pain realizing that
he has got the responsibility to show the terrorist the way to hell. Jagdish started
operating with other jawans while Janani was eyeing the whole scene from behind
the same pillar. Search went on to about ten more minutes and when Jagdish dint
find anybody there, decided to take Janani out of this building safe. He held
her wrist tight and pulled her out of her position and started running towards
the exit pointing the gun in all possible directions.
A bullet from nowhere stuck
right between Jagdish’s brows and he was thrown few metres back dead. Janani saw
all these with her eyes wide open and fainted at the same place keeping holding
his hands tighter. The jawans finally spotted, shot the loner and paid deepest
condolence to one of the most inevitable personalities of the Indian Army
Major.Jagdish because of whom the mission came to an end despite a disastrous
loss to the society.
Major.Jagdish emerged an
icon for his immense dedication and solidarity. For Jagdish always the country
stood well ahead of his family. His wife
set his body on fire and began leading her normal routine with all his
memories. Deep inside her heart she always felt proud for her husband without
whom many an appointment for terrorists to hell would not have been fixed.
