HARIJAI SINGH PART 4

CHAPTER 38
Back to New York, our married life picked up the work
momentum, slowly but smoothly.
Work and fantasy don’t go together, not in New York where the
pace of life hardly gives you a chance to pause and look back.
Life’s signal is sharp and clear: look ahead and look forward.
This is a matter of survival.
Survive all must, but in a harmonious way. This is how Zaheer
and I have adjusted our life beautifully without any trace of
friction. This was possible simply because there was no thirdparty
intervention in our life.
Zaheer’s parents and relations were back in Saharanpur. Right
now, I won’t recall my mother-in-law’s partying advice to me. I
shall share with you later, at an opportune time. Right now, my
priority is to pick up the threads from my research work.
As for Zaheer, he was awfully busy with his work. He was
working hard since his promotion was on the cards. So, he had
no time to think and talk about small, small things of life. I like
this.
I too do not wish to get lost in small matters of life. I always
believe in Think Big and Act Big. This is what makes life
challenging and stimulating.
Weeks passed by. Months rolled into years. Life, by and large,
has a smooth sailing. More than half of my research on intercommunity
relations was through. I was happy with the
progress. But I cannot build castles of harmony on certain set
theories.
Inter-community relationship is a live issue. It could vary from
one set of persons to another. It could change in assessment
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