Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai

Author:Dipika Rai [Rai, Dipika]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-07-03T18:22:20+00:00

Chapter 10

DAKU MANMOHAN IS TRUE TO HIS WORD. There isn’t a task they can set for him that he doesn’t complete with care and passion. He has turned, not just the corner plot, but the whole area round his cell into luscious fields. Asmara Didi half expects the barren mango trees overhead to start producing fruit just to be a part of the fecund cycle he seems to have put into motion. Reluctantly her admiration for the man she hates is growing.

Each day the bandit is let out of his cell. He hitches the yoke across his shoulders and with measured steps reaches his field. He has transformed that parched and stony earth into prolific greenery through sheer will. All along the edge of his field stand precise rows of marvellous roses in glorious bloom. Heads of flowers as large as cabbages – his personal undeclared gift to Asmara Didi – drop occasional petals to the turned earth below.

But the novelty of the prisoner is wearing thin, and now only the staunchest hecklers – Gope and mute Kanno – remain. Time has made them still and silent. The only one who remains keen as a ripe chilli is Singh Sahib himself. His heart still reverberates like a tuning fork in unison with the bandit’s daily prayers. Subconsciously Singh Sahib knows that their entwined destinies will bear a profound fruit.

He finds himself humming one of the prisoner’s tunes:

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