Jaipur is a congested place. It’s congested and hot and therefore it’s always wise to take a walk in the evening. Evenings are pleasant and this evening I was taken to Shri Thal, a place one can cherish going to. We were talking about her roommate, who would hardly come home. She was pretty and had a rich boyfriend, who won’t let her come home. But I was told that the relationship was a little abusive as the guy would at times get violent and the girl would hide stuff to keep his temper in control. The reader might wonder why but I don’t know.

I asked her if she had been to the IT companies in Banglore for any of the training projects there. She said she had stayed in Banglore for more than 3 years. I was expecting that something might have happened there as well so I probed if she found someone handsome to be with, in Banglore. She could see the smile on my face and said with a sigh “Yes.” She continued, “He made me change my name by adding “H” to the “T” and making “T” sound like “TH.”

“Why would he do that? “H” won’t have helped much,” I asked.

“This is how South Indian names are. And above all, it wasn’t just a relationship this time, it was another marriage I got into.”

“Huhh,” is all I said.

She was a little agitated with the huhh sound I made.

“Call me a prostitute if you want to. I know that is what you feel but you don’t know how important it was for me to prove myself right; that I was a woman worth marrying and even I could have a family.”

“I never thought of calling you a Prostitute but I am just a little entangled that how could you do it again after so much you had been through,” I said.

“Would you stop driving if you meet with accidents quite often. Marriage could have helped me and it surely did. I didn’t want to work as I had been working for long. I wanted to rest a bit and I thought this was the time as I was already in my 30s and I felt like I was draining myself.”

“How did you land up not having him by your side?” I asked.

“He was married and I got to know that only after 3 years of our marriage. He had kids whom he loved more than anyone. He managed to keep me in Banglore while his wife and family were in Chennai.”

“How did they get to know,” I asked.

“They barged into our flat one day. He was caught red handed and his wife started yelling at us in her native tongue. I had no choice but to leave the place. I didn’t want to get into any legal issue as he was legally not allowed to marry me when he was already married. His friends have recently told me that his wife also left him after I was gone and he stays with his children now.

“Did you like staying in Banglore? Would you like to go back there?”

“I think if I have to go somewhere, I will go to Goa. Although, like every other city, I had some bad experiences there but I have had my best time there. Riding a bike, going to the beaches, my spiritual group there where I meditated and the night life of Goa mesmerizes me everytime.

Let me tell you about a girl I met in Goa. Would you find it interesting if I tell you that she was intersted in girls. She would puke on the slightest idea of sleeping with a man. She wasn’t manly or something as many consider lesbians to be manly. She was feminish and sweet. She had girlfriends and even they loved her like anything. She said she wanted to be around men like other girls and she would love to fantasize men and not women someday. I won’t tell you what I told her or counselled her with but I gave her a one on one session everyday in my meditation center. After a few days, I was told that she had started dating men so bad that she ended up in a threesome a few days back. And guess what, it was her and two boys.”

“I was laughing out loud and may be that’s what she expected of me.”

She smiled and we decided to walk around. She told me a little about her latest boyfriend who went away with a German girl taking a lot of “Lady L’s” money. He was a gigolo as she got to know later. He was associated with German, Russian and Spanish women and he was known to be paid well for every session. She trusted him with a sum of 2 lacs that she had managed to save in the last 6 months and he left her in a week after reciving the money.

The next day I had to return to Delhi but these few days were quite an experience. I was a little upset looking at someone so naive but if we don’t have people who trust, the world would be a difficult place to live in.

I checked her profile a few days back and now she is a full time Relationship Counsellor. She is not married but she might be in a relationship with someone. God Knows!