Flashback continues:
Unaware of all these happenings, Mohini was studying in her school. She observed that Dipesh was secretly watching her. She also started feeling some sort of attraction towards him.
However, at their age, it was difficult to understand whether what they were experiencing for each other was love or just an infatuation.
Revati was a common friend of Dipesh and Mohini. One day Mohini directly asked Dipesh whether he liked her. Dipesh nodded.
Revati also found out about this love story of theirs later.
Revati grew up watching her parents’ quarrel. She also watched her father beating her mother badly. At her age, it was difficult for her to understand the reasons behind these things, but somehow, she started losing faith in the love between a man and a woman and overall, the marriage. Her brother ran away from home because of these things. He never returned.
Police also investigated and searched for him a lot but in vain. Later everyone believed that he might have committed suicide. Revati was stronger mentally than her brother so at least she survived such an atmosphere at home.
The gossiping about Tarini and Sumedh escalated. She suffered a lot of torture due to various comments and taunting. It somehow tarnished her image in college. Being overly sensitive, Tarini couldn't handle all this. It affected her studies. In addition, teachers purposely started pointing out mistakes in her practical.
Some sensitive and impeccable souls can't handle conspiracy and cruelty and gambit. They feel everyone in the world is also straightforward like them. She didn't know that Sumedh purposely kissed her that day in the library and it was a part of the plan plotted against her.
She started keeping as much distance as possible from everyone in college. She feared what would happen when her parents will know about this.
She started becoming stressed. That led to sleepless nights. Then it affected her health and overall studies. The strange behavior of a few of her classmates, as well as teachers with her, was beyond her understanding. When Her Mother noticed this, she simply said that it was due to the pressure of studying.
In the middle of the night, she used to wake up suddenly with sweat on her face with all the different taunting voices of teachers and classmates in her ear.
She got delusions that the students and teachers are standing outside her house and laughing loudly at her in unison.
During this, Mohini was in another world of her thinking about Dipesh. She couldn't notice much about the changes in her sister. Does love to make someone blind? It was proving true with Mohini.
Finally, one day when her mother talked to Mohini about this, Mohini tried asking Tarini, but Tarini didn't tell anything. Mohini checked with some of her friends who knew a few well-wisher classmates of Tarini. They told the whole story. Mohini was sure that Tai couldn't have behaved irresponsibly. It must be the guy Sumedh who might have done this purposely. The good wisher was also sure of this.
Mohini took Tarini outside in a restaurant one day and took her into confidence and told her that she would not tell the incident to their parents as both knew that their parents were orthodox. Anyways Tarini hadn't done anything wrong at all. So She suggested that Tarini come out of all disturbing thoughts and concentrate on her studies. Tarini felt relieved and agreed.
But unfortunately, she couldn't implement Mohini's advice practically. Day by day her mental condition deteriorated. Her parents thought it was due to the pressure of her studies.
She started laughing suddenly without any reason. She would suddenly start irrelevant chatter. She also started losing sense in doing day to day tasks. She would brush her teeth for hours until someone stops her. She used to drink water repeatedly even if her thirst was quenched. She would keep her hair loose. She would forget to comb her hair.
One day she suddenly woke up at midnight and we went to a neighborhood house and stood near an open window.
A child was sleeping inside the house near the window…
She stared at him for a longer time and started laughing.
That made the child wake up from sleep.
The child got so scared of a lady with loose hair in the moonlight laughing that he fell sick. His temperature crossed 104.
Since that day, everyone in the colony realized about Tarini's mental condition. Even well-educated people in urban areas do not have a good view of mental illness, and here it was just a small village.
Words spread. Later, her parents found out about what happened with Tarini in her college. And in addition to that, the deteriorating mental state made them decide to leave the town as soon as possible.
The family decided to leave the town immediately and settle in Pune. In that city, they were having a temporary residence arranged by their community settled for years there.
Dipesh had gone out of town with his family at that time. Mohini made a firm decision after seeing the condition of her elder sister.
Forgetting everything else in life including love, she wanted to get admission to medical college and master whatever degree available in medical science related to mental illness and heal her sister at any cost.
She knew the family couldn't fight alone with the people who did wrong to her sister. And now revenge wasn't important. Healing of Tarini was important. And in all such situations, by telling her parents about her love, she didn't want to give one more shock to her parents.
Still, with a slight ray of hope in mind, she left a message in the form of a letter with Revati for Dipesh:
The letter read as below:
"Dear Dipesh,
Writing this letter in hurry.
Some unavoidable circumstances made me leave the town suddenly with my family, but I have not forgotten our love and I will meet you whenever it becomes possible and when things become better.
But first, I must set a few things right in my family. It's the priority now.
Everything happened so quickly that we made this sudden decision. Revati will tell you in short what happened to us. I will contact you once things get under control.
Yours,
Dipika”
At that time there were no mobile phones with everyone, and Mohini didn't know the landline number of Dipesh's home.
Revati on the way to Dipesh's home, burned the letter with a matchstick.
Then she went to Dipesh and told him, "Mohini left the town forever with her family as her father got a good job in a city. She is no longer interested in you now. She feels that what you and she are calling as love is just an infatuation and nothing else. She said, you shouldn't try to follow her, and you have to forget her."
Revati had a very strong personal grudge against the concept of love, marriage and love marriage because she had seen her parents quarrelling a lot daily and her mother falling victim to domestic violence.
By telling a lie to Dipesh, she had prevented one love marriage from happening.
Dipesh wanted Mohini to be happy. He said to Revati, "If she feels that she will remain happy after leaving me, then I will also be happy!"
While returning home on her scooter after she met Dipesh, the words by Dipesh were echoing in her mind and she was thinking, "Does such a sacrificial love exist in today's world?"
A cunning smile spread on her face showing her success in breaking a couple.
While she was lost in her thoughts, a speedy truck rammed her scooter from behind due to its failed breaks. Revati lost her balance and fell and died due to an injury to the head.
Later Dipesh didn't bother to check what happened with Mohini and her family, because he also had his own education and career and ambition ahead. Very soon he went to another city for his junior college education and then for his engineering degree.
Before the bud of their love could blossom into a beautiful flower, it was broken by ruthless situations in their life created by destiny.
