SAHANA: TRUE GHOST EPISODES PART 2

Episode - 2
There was no problem with two pairs in our gang. Sudha and I; Shiva and Lavanya had no problems in their love life with respect to our parent’s acceptance. On the other hand, Raghav and Sindhu; Moulee and Deepika had certain problems.
It was 25^th October 2009, that’s when the disaster occurred. Sindhu’s parents had been searching for a groom right from the age she turned 21. They had finally decided on the groom and called them to see the girl. Sindhu was madly in love with Raghav and she couldn’t tell it straight to her parents or neither could Raghav tell it to his parents. He wanted to finish his studies and then confess to his parents.
There was nothing Raghav or anyone of us could do except to pray. The guy’s family came over and they liked Sindhu a lot. The horoscopes also matched. We couldn’t do anything but to console both of them. That night I spoke to Sindhu. I got all the details of the groom and his family. Me and Shiva were thinking what to do. Then Shiva gave me an idea.
The next day morning at 10:00am Shiva and I went to the groom’s place. We decided to go to the groom’s place. Just when we were about to enter their house, we heard some arguments.
“I can’t marry this girl just for you, dad. I told u I love nidhi. How can I marry this girl when I am in love with someone else?” The guy was shouting.
As soon as we heard this, Shiva and myself looked at each other with a glee in our faces.
“I can’t do anything now, I have already informed the girl’s parents.” The dad said.
“That’s okay. I will go and inform them now itself.” The guy said.
“I won’t allow you for that.” Dad said.
I stormed in and said, “There’ll be no need for you to inform. We are coming on behalf of the girl’s place.”
“Who are you?” The dad asked.
“Sorry to interrupt. I am a friend of Sindhu’s. More like her brother. I just want to talk something personal to you.” I said.
“Yes please. Sit down.” They said.
“This is my friend shiva.” I said.
They acknowledged him also. I told them regarding Raghav and Sindhu, their sincere love for each other.
“The only way we can stop this is by confessing everything sir. Please don’t separate them. True love should never fail.” I said in a pleading tone.
“Yes sir please. They mean a lot to us.” Shiva said.
“Yes dad. Please it’s my life as well as her’s at stake. Please.” The guy pleaded.
“Okay fine. I will call them now and tell.” He said.
In ten minutes he called them and confesses about his son’s love affair. Though Sindhu’s father was perplexed, he had no other choice but to cancel it. Then shiva and myself met Raghav and told him everything. He got his life back. We asked him to call Sindhu’s father and arrange a meeting.
He called her father and arranged a meeting outside a temple. Sindhu’s dad knew that Raghav and his daughter were friends. Her dad came after he worshipped the temple. He acknowledged Raghav and they walked towards the back of the temple. Raghav then confessed everything to her dad. He remained calm and listened patiently. He was okay with the love marriage but he said that first Raghav had to confess to his parents and get an approval. Raghav asked for a time of six months. That became a temporary solution to their problem.
Things were again back in full swing, classes which we bunked, marina beach meetings, night stays, going out as a gang, etc. We successfully completed another year in our law career. Raghav had confessed his love at his place. To his surprise, they accepted without any hesitations. There were absolutely no problems at all.
We were now in final year of our law career. In the final year all we had to do is, compile a case study. That is, take a case, study it and display the pros and cons of the case. This was the most important aspect of the law course. We had to practice under a lawyer. While shiva and Moulee wanted to practice under a lawyer who fights for women rights, Raghav and I were interested to practice under a criminal lawyer.
We were in dire search of a lawyer. Shiva and Moulee found Mr. Anantha Narayanan a famous women’s rights advocate and we found out Mr. Bharadwaj Sunder a famous criminal lawyer. The day we went to meet them, we got selected for the case study. Both the advocates asked us to research for a case study in a month and get back to them.
So we had a month’s time before we could search for a case. We went to the public library in Chennai. It had archives of many newspapers which had lot of information regarding murders, suicides, etc. We also visited our college library which contained archives of the case studies done by our seniors. We borrowed some of them for reference. We also went to Connimera Library which is one of the ancient libraries in Chennai. Though we couldn’t find anything for the case, I borrowed couple of books like “Life after death” by Deepak Chopra and another book titled “Spirit Rescue” by Wilma Davidson. I had a special interest and belief in these kinds of paranormal books. I believed in one of the most controversial statements that ‘Ghosts and spirits existed.’
We were working round the clock to find a case. But we had no luck.
One day, we went to Anna University cultural symposium named ‘Kurukshethra’10’. We enjoyed the day over there. The canteen at Anna University is simply superb. One can come there at least for tasting the food. Raghav and I were in a hurry to meet Sindhu and Sudha respectively. So we informed Shiva and Moulee that we are starting. They wanted to drink juice and they said they will follow us.
Just as we started towards the exit, a car came very swiftly. The door of the car opened and a girl was pushed outside the university. We were shocked to see it. The girl fell down. Raghav and I immediately parked our bikes on the spot and ran towards her.
Just as she fell down, I lifted her and asked, “Are you all right?”
She stood up and took her hand from mine forcibly and said “Fine thanks.”
“What happened? Who pushed you outside the car?” I asked.
“No one pushed me. I fell down accidentally.” She said.
She was lying and I could find that from her eyes. But I had no choice but to believe her. There was some pain in her eyes.
“Okay fine.” I said and she started moving towards the entrance. She took her cell phone and made a call.
Raghav took something which had fallen on the ground and gave it to me. I looked at it. It was an Anna University ID card. Student name was SAHANA S, Final year ECE.
She was walking swiftly when Raghav called out “Sahana...”
She turned back. We could see some tears in her eyes.
We both walked over and gave the ID card to her. She said “Thanks.”
She walked away. It took us sometime to remember her.
Raghav said “Hey you remember her?”
“No I don’t.” I said.
“This was the girl we met in Sri Vemkateswara College of Engineering. You remember the cultural programme that took part in that college right? Last year.” Raghav exclaimed.

 
FLASHBACK

The four of us went to Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering in Sriperumbudur. It’s one of the famous engineering college in Tamil Nadu situated in the National highway of Chennai – Bangalore. It was a cultural fest. In the cultural fest, they had a singing competition and as usual Moulee was on his toes. At that time one girl from Anna University sang. She sang the song ‘Cheeni Kum hai’ from the movie cheeni kum. The most impressive aspect of her singing was that, she sang one stanza in hindi and the other stanza in tamil and her voice strongly resembled Shreya Goshal’s voice.
Quite undoubtedly, she got the first prize. As soon as she got the first prize, we wanted to congratulate her as she was stupendous on stage. When we went outside, we saw her running into the arms of a guy. She hugged him tight.
“You were great on stage dear. Congrats.” He said with a smile
“Thanks da.” She said and held his hands tightly.
It was like witnessing two lovers with extreme love and affection at its pinnacles. We approached them.
“Yes?” The guy asked.
“Hi, I am Moulee and these are my friends. You were simply great on stage.” Moulee exclaimed.
“Thanks a lot.” She said.
We just smiled at her.
“She’s trying for a chance to sing in movies.” The guy said.
“Oh that’s great. We wish you all the very best.” I said.
“We have become great fan of yours. Your voice was simply superb.” Raghav said.
“Espcially the way u mixed Hindi and Tamil was too good.” Shiva said with a smile.
“Thanks guys. Thanks a lot.” She said.
“Can we get your autograph please?” I asked.
“Guys, I... This is too much...” She said.
“Honey, someday you would surely come across these situations.”
“Yes. That day we’ll tell that we were the first ones to get Autograph from you.” Raghav said with excitement.
“Okay fine.” She said.
We gave her a paper. She signed her name with the date and gave it to me.
“One more thing, can I get your Autograph too?” I asked the guy.
“Mine?” He asked with a shock.
“Yes, You form a great couple. Please my request.”
“Okay thanks.” He said and signed the paper.
“We’ll keep it for life.” Raghav said.
“That’s cool. Can I know your names as well?” The guy said.
“I am Srikkanth. This is Raghav and this is Shiva.” I said.
“Okay. Cool. I am Krishna and this is Sahana.” He said.
“Fine. Thanks for your autograph. We need to get going. All the best for your love and career.” I said.
We all said bye and departed from the college.
 

PRESENT

“Yes, She is that girl. Sahana. I think she is depressed. Shall we go and talk to her?” I asked.
“No machi. I don’t think it’s a good idea. We can surely meet her some other day.” Raghav said.
“Okay fine.” I said.
“Now let’s hurry up. We need to meet our girls.” Raghav said.
“Oops, yes.” I said and we started from Anna University and went to their college. From there we went to our favourite couple hangout spot ‘BLUE-BERRIES’. It’s an eat-out in T.Nagar. It has all ice-creams and of course junk food. It’s our favourite hangout spot.
We spent around couple of hours there. Then we dropped them at their places and we went to my place. Moulee and Shiva were waiting there. That night we played carom and saw few videos of ‘SAM ANDERSON’ in you tube and slept off.
The next day morning, I woke up first to put coffee for myself and my friends. My parents had gone out of station and my brother worked abroad. So I had to manage things by myself. I opened the main door, washed the floor and put ‘KOLAM’. It might sound silly for a guy to do such things but as far as I am concerned, it’s not necessary only for a woman to do such works. I took the paper and milk packets and went inside.
I switched on the stove and boiled the milk. I went to the hall and opened the newspaper. I just browsed through the pages. Something caught my eye. I was startled and petrified.
“Oh my god!” I exclaimed.
I ran and woke up the guys. Raghav was sleeping soundly. No one could wake up Moulee when he’s asleep and Shiva got up immediately.
“What happened da? Why waking us so early?” Shiva asked.
I showed him the newspaper and he read the headlines and his eyes widened up. He was shocked.
“Raghav, please get up da. You need to take a look at this.” Shiva said.
Moulee and Raghav woke up and saw the paper.
“What the hell?” Moulee said.
“Oh god. This can’t be true.” Raghav said.
“No da. That’s it. Yesterday itself the situation was abnormal. SAHANA IS DEAD.” I said.
“She was such a nice girl.” Raghav said.
“She had a great voice.” Moulee said.
Shiva was dumbstruck. He remained silent.


The newspaper read:
Young Girl Dies in an accident.
A girl aged 21 died in an accident when she was driving back from her college at Anna University in her scooty. Police later identified her as Sahana and the police informed her parents. A resident of Saidapet, 3^rd cross main road was returning home from college when a TATA Winger dashed her accidentally. It was a hit and run accident. None of the Witnesses noted the car number. Police are investigating the case.
I looked and Raghav and sank my head.
‘We can surely meet her some other day, Raghav said and the next day SHE’S DEAD.’ I thought.

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SAHANA: TRUE GHOST EPISODES PART1

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Episode - 1
Sahana, some might feel that it is the name of my lover. Some might feel it’s the name of my sister. Some might feel it’s the name of my mother. Who is she? She is one of the most important persons in my life. She is a person who gave a twist in my life.
I am a guy who takes everything seriously in life. Right from the dress I wear, food I eat and the people I choose to be friends with, I take my decisions very carefully. But of course there are always exceptions in life. Those exceptions are my three best friends in my life.
When I am with them, I seriously forget all the seriousness in my life. I enjoy my life to the fullest. We are totally four in number and we are all law college students in Chennai. The combination of Chennai and law college student itself is a great way of enjoying life. The way we bunk classes, going to movies and shopping malls, plazas nearby. The whole college always envied us for our friendship and the fact that however we bunk classes we get good grades and have a good rapport with our professors.
My name is Srikkanth. My three friends are Raghav, Moulee and Shiva. Thanks to our college seniors we became friends right on the first day of our college lives. It’s mainly because of the extensive ragging in our law colleges.
We had a regular practice of going out on weekends, especially every Friday we go to the Marina beach at 10:00pm and we get food from outside a place called “MAATAS” near my place and of course we also get other soft drinks. We spend time till midnight and then we all sleep at my place. We started this practice right from our third semester.
At times, we go to symposiums conducted by Engineering college students just for the sake of seeing girls. We have gone to almost all engineering colleges in Chennai. It’s the best time to see girls as generally they come in saree on that day. That’s how I met the girl of my life. The most important coincidence is that even my friends met their girls of their lives.

FLASHBACK

I still remember the day, 20^th June 2009 when I went to the symposium of Meenakshi Sunderrajan College of Engineering. It is a private engineering college in Kodambakkam in Chennai. The important aspect of this college is that, there is woman’s college very much adjacent to it. The woman’s college is Meenakshi college for Women. The management keeps the symposium of the engineering college and the cultural of the women’s college on the same day.
One of my friends, bharani studied there. He is a year elder to me. He had invited me for the symposium. Symposiums in chennai’s engineering colleges have technical events like paper presentation, project display, etc. Apart from this they conduct events like adzap, quiz, Treasure hunt for which we used to go and take part.
So we entered the college premises at 11:00am. Once we parked our bikes, we four of us entered the building. Outside the building of the engineering college, Bharani was waiting for us. He welcomed us and we started moving towards the registration counter.

“What da? It’s too crowded at the registration itself.” I asked.
“Yes, today is the symposium for us and the cultural for the woman’s college.” Bharani said.
“Then we can go to the woman’s college cultural right?” Raghav asked.
“I am in for sure.” Shiva said.
“Hey stop it guys, their events are boring just singing and dancing that too only after 4pm. We have interesting...” Bharani was talking but I was looking at the registration counter and there was a girl.
There was a striking feature about her that attracted me instantly. She was wearing a green saree, silver bangles in both her hands, lip gloss. She was very simple and no makeup at all. I like girls who don’t apply makeup. I started walking towards her.
“Dai, I am talking da.” Bharani said.
“Yes go on. I am listening.” I said.
“Fine. So treasure hunt event will be exciting that we can pair up teams...” Bharani was talking on and on. 
I walked over to the registration counter. She was writing something on a paper. I went near her as the other guys followed me. She lifted her face and saw me coming.
“Hi, Welcome to our college symposium & culturals. I would like to have your name and college name.” She said.
She had a tag with a badge and I badly wanted to see her name. I tried hard and could see only “S” before which she turned her ID card.
“Hi, my name is Srikkanth and I am from law college.” I said.
“Okay, Which event do you want to participate?” She asked.
“Actually I heard that we can pair up with girls for the treasure hunt event. Would you be interested in getting paired up with me?” I asked with a smile.
She stared at me, stood up and shouted “Hey Sindhu, can you please help me out here?”
“Yes sure.” She said.
“Hey, excuse me.” I said to her.
She started walking away. ‘Mannn she’s awesome!!’ I thought.
Then Sindhu came there.
“Yes, tell me.” Sindhu said.
“No actually I was kidding with her as to whether she would pair up with me for treasure hunt.” I said.
“She’s not that type of a girl. She is sensitive.” Sindhu said.
“Okay. Can I just know her name?” I asked.
“Sudha” Sindhu said.
“Okay fine. We want to register for the treasure hunt and ad-zap event.” I said.
“Sure.” She said and noted our names and gave us our lunch tokens.
We started walking towards the auditorium for the inauguration talk when Raghav ran back and spoke to Sindhu.
“Uhh, Excuse me!” Raghav said.
“Yes?” Sindhu asked.
“We’ll go to lunch at 1pm. The time of the event is not mentioned. Who is organizing the event?” He asked.
“Me and my friend.” She said.
“Okay fine. Uhh... Ahem... Can I have your number please? So that I can call you and ask about the timings.” Raghav asked with a hesitation.
She smiled and gave him her number. He then started walking towards us with a smile that said ‘Yes, I have done it.’
All five of us entered the auditorium and we were waiting for the program to start. We sat in a continuous row. Raghav was messaging Sindhu. There were girls everywhere. Many of them were with their mates. There were many gorgeous looking girls but my mind was thinking only about her. The function started with a song. Three girls were singing a traditional song. Moulee is a song addict. He is crazy about carnatic music and people who sing carnatic songs too. I was sitting near moulee. 
Moulee asked “Hey machi, how is the girl who is singing?”
“How can I see from this long distance da? Why are you asking?” I asked.
“Her voice is mesmerising. I would love to speak to her.” He said.
“Okay, don’t worry we have Bharani with us.” I said winking at Bharani who was sitting beside Moulee.
“Dai this is too much da. Anyways her name is Deepika! She sings for all the college events. She hates boys though!” Bharani said.
“Oh I see. Sounds interesting.” Moulee said.
The song was over and the programs started. Bharani, Moulee, Shiva and I were talking aimlessly and gossiping while Raghav was busy frying nuts with Sindhu.
After the paper presentation and the project display event got over, we went for lunch to the canteen. Buffet was arranged for all the participants. We started eating when Deepika passed by us. Moulee went behind her and said, “Hey, I am Moulee from law college. You sing really well. Your voice is truly mesmerising.”
“Thanks.” She said bluntly and walked away.
“See I told you, she doesn’t react properly to guys da machi.” Bharani said.
Moulee became upset. It was 2:00pm when lunch was over. We proceeded to the ad-zap event. The topic that was given to us was toothpaste. We got our turn and we broke the crowd into wrecking laughter. We got the first place in ad-zap.
We went to the cafeteria. I bought a coke. Just when I turned, she was standing there. 
“Hi, what’s up?” I asked.
“You were amazing on stage. You have talents.” She said.
“Haaa thank you, thank you Pooja.” I said.
“My name is Sudha not Pooja.” She said.
“Yep I know, but just wanted you to tell out your name.” I said with a smile.
“You’re smart.” She said.
“I know. Have a nice day. Bye.” I said and started to leave.
“Hey.” She called.
I turned and said “Yes?”
“I was wondering if we could team up for treasure hunt.” She said with a smile.
‘That smile, I can never ever forget it. Her teeth when she smiles make her pulchritudinous.’ I thought.
“Sure. I would love you.” I said.
She looked at me in shock.
“Oops sorry I would love to.” I smiled.
She smiled and we went to the place where the event was about to take place. We didn’t win the treasure hunt, but I surely won a big treasure – her heart. It was just half hour of playing treasure hunt together, running around, searching for clues, etc. But I seriously wished the game never ended.
It was 4:00pm. Shiva, Bharani and Moulee were having tea at the canteen. Me, Sudha, Sindhu and Raghav were walking in the ground.
“So when does the dance program and all start?” Raghav asked Sindhu.
“Well, it should start in an hour. Why asking?” Sindhu asked.
“No, just want to see the girls dance.” He said showing his teeth.
“I will kill you.” She said and that’s it a love story blossomed there.

Sudha and me were talking about a range of things. I got to know about her hobbies and also about her family. I loved it when she talked, looking at her cute expressions made me skip many heartbeats. 
We managed to pass one hour and we went to the auditorium. This time the women’s college auditorium. The women’s college was very strict. There was a solo singing competition as well as group singing competition. The first singer was Deepika. She came over to the dias. Just as she was walking on the stage Moulee got up and shouted and clapped. The entire audience turned back and saw Moulee and so did Deepika. Moulee turned to me and said, “I was just encouraging her.”
“Well, this is enough for her to be mad on you for this century.” I said.
Moulee sank down to his seat. After Deepika finished singing he ran to the backstage. In fifteen minutes, he came smiling. “Machi I became friends with her.”
“What? I can’t believe it. How?” Bharani said.
“Haha, Nothing I just told her about myself and she became comfortable being friends.” Moulee said.
“All were lies right.” Shiva said winking. 
We all laughed but I felt happy for Moulee. ‘Such a nice guy he is’ I thought.

The dance competition was over and then came the choreo night. It was a wonderful four hour event. In between we had a break. We all wanted something to eat. Shiva wasn’t hungry. So we all went to the canteen. When we came back, Shiva wasn’t there. We called his mobile but there was no answer. We started watching the dance shows and all the women were rocking the dance floor. 
After an hour, Shiva came with a girl. The girl ran to the stage and the next dance was performed by her team. I asked him “What happened da? Where were you all along?”
“That girl you saw now, she left the karoke for the dance at her place. She had neither time nor vehicle to pick it up. So I took her to her place and brought the karoke.” He said.
“That’s some timely help I guess.” Raghav said.
“Yes, that’s nice of you.” I said.
The choreo night was over. All the students started to leave. The buses were ready to leave. Just as we went to the parking lot, the girl who Shiva helped came running.
“Hey shiva, Thanks for your timely help. Without you the dance would have been a flop.”
“Hey no problem.” Shiva said.
“Hey guys this is Lavanya.” Shiva said . “And Lavanya this is Srikkanth, Raghav, Moulee and of course you must be knowing Bharani. They are my best friends.”
Just as he was introducing the buses started.
“Nice to meet you guys” She said. “Oh my god... My bus left.” She said in a sad tone.
“That’s okay. Shiva can drop you. We can catch an auto.” I said.
“Okay with me.” Shiva said with a glee.
“Fine bye guys. See you sometime later.” Lavanya said.
“Hey machi...” Raghav called.
“Yes da. Tell.” I said.
“Can you drive my bike with Moulee? Me and Bharani will come by auto.” He said.
“Fine. But why?” I asked.
“I have to message Sindhu.” He said smiling.
“Machi I have to also message Deepi. So I will come with Raghav. You and Baha go in the bike.” Moulee said.
“Well, Okay. No problem.” I said.
Me and Bharani went to the parking lot and the other two guys caught an auto to my place. Shiva was in my place an hour later. 
By the time I reached home, I had received four messages from Sudha. I replied her but she slept off.
I sent her the message ‘Had an awesome day with you. You looked very beautiful in the green saree. Was driving that’s why couldn’t reply. Catch you tomo. Take care. Good night and sweet dreams.’ 

PRESENT

Now all the four of us are committed. Myself and Sudha, Raghav and Sindhu, Shiva and Lavanya, Moulee and Deepika. We were happy till disaster struck.
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