chapter 1

Friends,  This English story "Still Illegal Relationship? (Session 2) originally written by me in Hindi on Pratilipi Platform is based on the story "Phir Bhi Avaidh Sambandh?  (Session 2).More than 3 lakh 13 thousand Hindi readers have so far read this story on Pratilipi.  Since this story is good and social, I am presenting it to English readers by translating it from "Hindi to English" from "Google translate App".  There may be some differences in the meaning of words and grammatical errors while translating from Hindi to English.  For which I apologize...🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👇Come on, let's start the story.....👇Still Illegal Relationship? (Session 2): Regional Pension Office, Lok Nayak Bhawan,Khan Market, New Delhi.An office room where Lalit Kumar, while opening his lunch box, calls out to Vatsala, "Vatsala! Hey friend! What are you doing? I am hungry, come quickly."Vatsala, while washing her face and hands in the wash basin, says, "Yes, I am coming Baba! Wash my hands, just two minutes!", Vatsala's speech reflected being South Indian.Lalit looks at her and says: “You know, there is a lunch time of one hour, from 1.00 to 2.00 and after that, at 2.00, people start lining up.Vatsala washes her hands and faces and comes to Lalit's table with the tiffin box, pulls her chair and sits looking at him with a smile.Lalit, while giving the potato spinach curry from his bowl to Vatsala, says: "People come here with one problem after another, if you don't solve their problem, then the PRO (Public Relation Officer) calls and scolds. At least  During this time, eat your food comfortably; relax and talk for a while."Vatsala opens her tiffin box and puts coconut chutney, sambar and two pieces of idli in Lalit's bowl and says: "You know Lalit! Today a letter has come in the post, in which some unknown person has written about a pensioner woman "Lakshmi Devi.  " has complained that while taking widow pension after the death of her husband, she has married a person named "Vijay Kumar", who is a Lab Assistant in "Hindustan Lever Limited Company", and yet in the last  Widow has been collecting pension for last one year.Lalit while eating idli with chutney says: "Okay! This is wrong, it should be investigated. You send the letter to Vigilance, they will look into this case, what do we have to do? Our job is only to complain."  To be forwarded to the concerned department."Vatsala, chewing the roti and vegetable in her mouth, says: “Yes, I will send it…. At your place, the vegetables are good, the potatoes and spinach are very good…. Lalit! Do you want more sambar?Saying “Yes, yes of course”, Lalit holds out a bowl of tiffin towards her and says, “The sambhar of your house tastes very good… Who makes it? You or your mother?Vatsala, pouring half the Sambar from the Sambar bowl into her bowl, says, "Amma makes it. My 'Amma' makes a number of Sambars. The same way I make it, it doesn't taste the same, which comes when Amma makes it."  Is"Lalit says smilingly, "Your mother must have come to Delhi with father after learning in the village. That's why she has good experience in making sambar."Vatsala says: "Yes, my parents came to Delhi when I was one year old."On the day Vatsala brings idli, Lalit gives her roti and vegetables and Vatsala gives her idli chutney sambhar.  Both of them eat together during lunch time, sharing the food.Lalit, looking at Vatsala: "Vatsala! Your younger sister "Ragini" is doing B.Sc. Nursing, right? Is she in first year? or second?"Saying “I am in the second year”, Vatsala starts drinking water.After drinking the water, Vatsala says to Lalit, “Lalit! Did you talk to your parents about our marriage?Lalit gets shocked at Vatsala's statement and takes Vatsala's hand in his hands and kisses him, saying: "No, not now, I will do it, why are you worrying about her, you keep saying the same thing again and again.  "If it's too much, we'll run away and get married in court."After having dinner, Lalit and Vatsala close their tiffin boxes, wash their hands and face in the wash basin, sit in their respective chairs and start talking, there was still 25 minutes left for two o'clock.Vatsala takes out some fennel seeds and sugar from a box from her hand bag and gives it to Lalit and puts some in his mouth and says: "Lalit, do something quickly, my mother is after me, marry my younger maternal uncle's son.  She is pressurizing me to do so, since childhood my mother has promised her brother to marry her son."Lalit while chewing on the hand: "Yes, Vatsala, I know, you had told me, as soon as the marriage of my sister "Neha" is finalized, my path will be clear, I also want a wife, I am 28 years old.  Am"Vatsala says smilingly: “Is there any problem if the daughter-in-law comes first?Lalit: "I don't know! My mom and dad have similar thinking, so what can we do? Their thinking is that after biding farewell to their daughter, they have to bring their daughter-in-law."Lalit pauses a bit and says, "Vatsala! What is this custom in your South, of marrying maternal uncle's children? In UP and Hindi provinces, maternal uncle's children consider each other as brother and sister."Vatsala says: "Yes, I know, but in our entire South, be it Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh or Kerala Karnataka, everywhere I can marry either my maternal uncle or maternal uncle's son."Lalit is surprised: "Even from uncle? Amazing man!"Vatsala: “Yes, this custom has been going on for years now, it is the same tradition even today, we have assimilated it mentally, we do not find anything wrong in it, the entire South gives priority to this relationship, after that  Let's see the relationship somewhere outside.Lalit says in a serious mood: "Well, leave it, it's our tradition, just wait for a few more days, then we both will get married."It was two o'clock in the clock and people started queuing up at both the counters of the office window to complain.  Lalit and Vatsala come to their respective counter chairs, open the window and start taking complaint letters and other applications.Pension related complaints, pension applications along with all the documents and life certificate to be filled every year are taken here.After leaving the office in the evening, both of them stop at a coffee shop and drink tea and then after saying "bye" to each other, Vatsala leaves in his Suzuki Access Ladies car and Lalit in his bike towards his home.Lalit comes to his home at Chandni Chowk.  As soon as he parks the bike and enters the house, Lalit's two year old daughter "Rimjhim" runs and hugs her father's feet, shouting "Papa has come", Papa has come, Papa has come.  .......To be Continued .... 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