Edition 49

A SERENDIPITOUS
A SERENDIPITOUS
EPIPHANY
EPIPHANY
Sankhaya Singh Chandel, 2nd 2 year, COE
Thud! Peter is roused from his mindless stupor by an uncharacteristically loud bang. He regains consciousness only to realize
Thud! that, to Peter his utter is roused horror, from his his car mindless has forsaken stupor its by intended an uncharacteristically path and intent loud bang. on venturing He regains into consciousness the thickets that only intersperse to realize that, the
to road. his He utter swings horror, into his action car has and forsaken rams the its intended brakes, but path fails and to is stall intent its on rapid venturing advance into into the the thickets darkness that of intersperse the forest. the Beads road. of
He perspiration swings into crowd action his and forehead rams the as brakes, he struggles but fails to to take stall the its reins rapid of advance his frenzied into the metal darkness horse. of The the wilderness forest. Beads soon of perspiration transitions
crowd into a clearing; his forehead Peter as finds he struggles himself swiftly to take approaching the reins of his a cliff. frenzied metal horse. The wilderness soon transitions into a clearing;
Peter finds himself swiftly approaching a cliff.
Jumping off a cliff. This thought has occurred incessantly to Peter this evening, ever since the news of his ailing mother’s death
Jumping was broken off a to cliff. him. This Peter’s thought bond has with occurred his mother incessantly ran deep: to Peter she had this rescued evening, him ever from since an the abominable news of his orphanage, ailing mother’s catapulting death
was him broken into the to loving him. Peter’s arms of bond a mother with his who mother stood ran by deep: him she through had rescued thick and him thin, from an leaving abominable an indelible orphanage, mark. catapulting His eyes glistened him into
the with loving an unending arms of a deluge mother of who tears stood as by he him set through out on the thick arduous and thin, journey leaving an to indelible his mother. mark. The His eyes wee hours glistened had with aggravated an unending his
deluge
insurmountable
of tears as
sorrow;
he set
before
out on
long,
the arduous
he found
journey
himself
to
overcome
his mother.
with
The
grief
wee
and
hours
slipped
had aggravated
into a slumber.
his insurmountable sorrow;
before long, he found himself overcome with grief and slipped into a slumber.
Peter reckons that he has a couple of seconds before the car goes headlong into the nearing abyss. The brakes are already a
Peter reckons that he has couple of seconds before the car goes headlong into the nearing abyss. The brakes are already a lost
lost cause. He slams the door open. To his dismay, it refuses to give way, perhaps owing to the tussle in the woods, accelerating
cause.
his rapidly
He slams
beating
the
heart.
door open. To his dismay, it refuses to give way, perhaps owing to the tussle in the woods, accelerating his
rapidly beating heart.
“Use the headrest!” whispers his mother into his ears. Peter finds a glimmer of hope as he recounts how, as a child, his mother
“Use enlightened the headrest!” him on the whispers utility his of a mother headrest into to his break ears. out Peter of a finds car. The a glimmer episode of invigorates hope as he him. recounts To buy how, time, as a he child, kills his the mother engine
enlightened and uproots him the on headrest the utility from of a his headrest seat. He to break takes out a huge of a car. gasp The of episode air just invigorates before he jolts him. To the buy headrest time, he into kills the glass engine pane, and
uproots shattering the it headrest thereupon. from He his leaps seat. out He of takes the a broken huge gasp pane of like air a just hare before and crashes jolts the onto headrest the ground. into the glass pane, shattering it
thereupon. He leaps out of the broken pane like a hare and crashes onto the ground.
Supporting himself on on his his elbows, he he watches dismally as as his his car car plummets into into oblivion. He He flops flops on the on the ground, ground, engulfed engulfed by the by
night the night sky. sky. He looks He looks on as on if to as thank if to thank his mother his mother in the in stars. the stars. The question The question that accosts that accosts him now? him now? How to How get to back get home. back home.
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पिछली बार मैं अमृतसर 7 वर्ष पूर्व गया था, और तब की बहुत सी
पिछली बार मैं अमृतसर 7 वर्ष पूर्व गया था; और तब की बहुत सी
धु ंधली यादें बार-बार वापस उधर जाने का आग्रह करती थीं। तो
धुंधली यादें बार-बार वापस उधर जाने का आग्रह करती थीं। तो
दिसम्बर
दिसम्बर में
में
जैसे
जैसे ही
ही
कॉलेज
कॉलेज
की
की छुट्टियाँ
छुट्टियाँ
प्ारंभ
प्रारंभ
हुईं,
हुईं,
मैंने
मैंने
अमृतसर
अमृतसर
की
की
राह पकड़ पकड़ ली। ली। ट्रेन ट् ेन से से उतर उतर कर कर पहले पहले एक एक बार बार मन मन भर भर चारों चारों
ओर देखा ओर
और देखा स्वयं और को स्वयं कहा,”लो को कहा, भई, “लो आ भई, गए”, आ और गए”, मामा और के मामा घर की के ओर घर चल की
दिया। ओर चल यूँ दिया। तो मुझे यू सब ँ तो मुझे शहर सब एक शहर से ही एक लगते से ही हैं लगते किंतु स्टेशन हैं, किं तु से स्ेशन मामा
से के मामा घर के के रास्ते घर के में रास्े जहाँ नज़र में जहाँ पड़ती, नज़र लगता पड़ती, बदलाव लगता बदलाव झलक रहा झलक है।
रहा अनजान है। अनजान जगह, अनजानी जगह, इमारत; अनजानी सब इमारत; के सब सब एक के धुन सब में बदलाव एक धुन का में
बदलाव गुणगान का कर गुणगान रहे थे। वैसे कर तो रहे बचपन थे। वैसे में तो भी बचपन मामा के में घर भी आया मामा था के घर तब
आया तो ये घर था, कोई तब बहुत तो ये नया घर कोई नहीं था बहुत परंतु नया अब नहीं देखा था, तो परंतु उम्मीद अब से देखा अधिक तो
उम्ीद पुराना-सा से अधिक लगा, मानो पुराना-सा बूढ़ा हो लगा, गया हो। मानो गली बूढा भी हो जैसे गया कुछ हो। सकरी-सी गली भी
जैसे हो गई कु छ है। सकरी-सी ऐसे आश्चर्य हो गई से है। चीज़ों ऐसे को आश्चर्य देखने से का चीज़ों सिलसिला को देखने दो-तीन का
दिन सिलसिला चला और दो-तीन फिर दिन जब चला मै अभ्यस्त और फिर हो गया जब तो मै सब अभ्यस् कुछ हो पहले गया जैसा तो
सब कु छ पहले जैसा लगने लगा। घर, गली, इमारतें; लगने लगा की
लगने लगा। घर, गली, इमारतें; लगने लगा की सब पहले भी ऐसा ही
सब पहले भी ऐसा ही था। तब मुझे आभास हुआ कि यादोंके आकार
था। तब मुझे आभास हुआ कि यादों के आकार में जब वास्तविकता
में
के
जब
रंग फीके
वास्पवकता
पड़ गए
के
थे तो
रंग
मैंने
फीके
उन्मे
पड़
कल्पना
गए थे तो
के
मैंने
रंग भर
उन्े
दिए
कल्पना
थे। रंग,
के
जिनका रंग भर कोई दिए अस्तित्व थे। रंग, जिनका ही नहीं था। कोई अब अस्तित्व जब वास्तविक ही नहीं था। रंग फिर अब उभर जब
आए वास्पवक थे तो रंग यहाँ फिर आने उभर से पहले आए जो थे तो अमृतसर यहाँ आने की यादें से पहले थीं वो जो सब अमृतसर मुरझा
गईं। की यादें हम थीं सभी वो के सब मन मुरझा में बचपन गईं। को हम पुनः सभी जीने के की मन चाह में बचपन होती है। को जानता पुनः
हूँ जीने बचपन की चाह अमृतसर होती की है। तरह जानता कोई जगह हँ बचपन नहीं है, अमृतसर परंतु अब की लगता तरह है कोई की
अगर जगह एक नहींहै, बार परंतु फिर अब बचपन लगता जीने है की को अगर मिल एक जाएगा बार तो फिर शायद बचपन दोबारा जीने
उसे को मिल भी जीने जाएगा का मन तो न शायद करेगा। दोबारा वास्तविकता उसे भी जीने और कल्पना का मन न पर करेगा। चिंतन
के वास्पवकता इस निष्कर्ष और से कल्पना जूझता पर जब चिंतन मैं स्टेशन के इस पर निष्कर्ष खड़ा हो से वापस जूझता दिल्ली जब मैं
जाने स्ेशन वाली पर खड़ा ट्रेन का हो इंतज़ार वापस दिल्ी कर रहा जाने था तो वाली अज्ञेय ट् ेन का के इंतज़ार यात्रा वृतांत कर रहा का
था, शीर्षक तो अज्ेय बार-बार के यात्ा दिमाग वृतांत में गूँज का रहा शीर्षक था,”अरे बार-बार यायावर! दिमाग रहेगा में याद?”। गू ँ ज रहा
था, “अरे यायावर! रहेगा याद?”।
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