long time ..no blog..
Been a month since I wrote. Too long a period in a B-school where a zillion things happen everyday. So I got back from vacation, Diwali happened, self sale pitches written,Don kickassed the box office, Umrao Jaan bombed, Adobe's CEO's son got kidnapped, some of us got interviewed in campus, studies became extinct, B-school competitions held and I celebrated my 26th birthday.
In the middle of all that, I wrote this short story for a competition. The starting and ending line (in bold) were given, and word limit was just 300 words.
“If I hadn’t read the letter that night, I would have never known the truth.
Rahul always had a dream of becoming rich and famous. “One day you will see, I will rule the world” – he often used to say. On completing his CA he joined an investment bank. He was awarded with the “young achiever” award within the first year. Within few years, he was playing in heaps of money. A black Audi and a honeymoon in Venice had cost him a fortune.As he kept on growing, so did his wants. His wife Reena and two children would long for him to come home by the evening.
I met Reena in the Chicago downtown that day. After a long chat, I offered to drop her on my way back to home. It was 4 in the day, a very unusual time for Rahul’s car to be seen at home. For the following week, Rahul didn’t go to office and told Reena that he had resigned and now they should move back to India. Reena was ecstatic at this idea, only to know of her husband’s death in a car accident the next day.
I came to stay with Reena and while helping the children dress up for school one day, a white envelope fell on the floor. It had a letter from Rahul’s bank, saying
“The management has come to notice of your fraudulent practices. You have brought disgrace to the institution. For the sake of our bank’s reputation, we are not making this matter public and we are giving you one week’s notice to pay the amount of USD 20 million , the amount you have laundered, failing which you will be taken to court”.
Rahul did not die of a car accident, he had committed suicide and may his soul rest in peace.”
This was the story:).
By the way, one more thing has been happening - unsolicited people trying to give unwanted opinions and obscene comments on my blog. To which I have just one thing to say , that Dude, you are just hitting your head against a wall. The comments will be seen only when approved by me. But converse is not true, I can always abuse the comment writer on my blog, and he can't remove it !!...
I won't do that though, but the mere thought of it is exciting , isn't it ??
In the middle of all that, I wrote this short story for a competition. The starting and ending line (in bold) were given, and word limit was just 300 words.
“If I hadn’t read the letter that night, I would have never known the truth.
Rahul always had a dream of becoming rich and famous. “One day you will see, I will rule the world” – he often used to say. On completing his CA he joined an investment bank. He was awarded with the “young achiever” award within the first year. Within few years, he was playing in heaps of money. A black Audi and a honeymoon in Venice had cost him a fortune.As he kept on growing, so did his wants. His wife Reena and two children would long for him to come home by the evening.
I met Reena in the Chicago downtown that day. After a long chat, I offered to drop her on my way back to home. It was 4 in the day, a very unusual time for Rahul’s car to be seen at home. For the following week, Rahul didn’t go to office and told Reena that he had resigned and now they should move back to India. Reena was ecstatic at this idea, only to know of her husband’s death in a car accident the next day.
I came to stay with Reena and while helping the children dress up for school one day, a white envelope fell on the floor. It had a letter from Rahul’s bank, saying
“The management has come to notice of your fraudulent practices. You have brought disgrace to the institution. For the sake of our bank’s reputation, we are not making this matter public and we are giving you one week’s notice to pay the amount of USD 20 million , the amount you have laundered, failing which you will be taken to court”.
Rahul did not die of a car accident, he had committed suicide and may his soul rest in peace.”
This was the story:).
By the way, one more thing has been happening - unsolicited people trying to give unwanted opinions and obscene comments on my blog. To which I have just one thing to say , that Dude, you are just hitting your head against a wall. The comments will be seen only when approved by me. But converse is not true, I can always abuse the comment writer on my blog, and he can't remove it !!...
I won't do that though, but the mere thought of it is exciting , isn't it ??
12 Comments:
that is one strange story - i wonder how a completely and absolutely non-fin person like u thought of giving an i-banking background to the story..
...good luk for the finals!!
Interesting story--
Good luck for the next stages
rapchick story. sequel will be reena...making her way to the corporate world...and finding out one day that the ilzaam was jhootha..!!
and thus starts her struggle to being back her husband's pride....
but she dies one day...all of a sudden..leaving behind her 2 kids...who are now aged 21 and 23.
part III
kids swear to take revenge...but eventually kill one and another due to some complication
climax:
it turns out that rahul was actually guilty. reena found out and killed herself. kids found out and killed themselves.
this was because their grandfather was DON. and DON (aur uski future generations) ko zinda pakadna mushkil hi nahi...naamumkin hai...
taaliyaan...!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: i dont hv work today...
enchanting...wish u luck n peace
@akshit..yeah you do need to think radically at times :)
@venkat..thanks
@ankur...you sure din't have work in office :)..don't ask any producer to make a film on this :)
@anupam..thanks :)
Like you said...long time, since I visted your blog .. and found it refreshing like always ...
..and by the way, Happy Birthday, albeit a bit late :)
i could swear i've seen that same general concept in some indian movie.
.....which made me think...
doesn't say much about the movie if you can put the entire story down in 300 words!
story is very good. Your writing skills are unmatchable.
BTW are you a TIET pass out?
@romit ..thanks !..where have u been
@mj...may be...i have been brought up with an overdose of hindi cinema, so may be the shades are seen now :)...but i dont remember seeing such movie !
@anonymous...thanks...yes I am TIET ian...and who are you ?
I am in 3rd year. Mandeep Singh (Mandy Sir) once mentioned about Shivangi in the class so i thought you are the one whom he talked about.
Just Curious..What made you write such a sad story?...
I was just surfing the net and suddenly found this and opened it as I saw the name shivangi...
I really enjoyed the story..it was nice but the way it was written was extremely nice..it is the story of todays' world...n for some time i feel connected to my sister...SHIVANGI..
nyways congrats for ur placement...which B.school u belong to??
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