The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories by Nisha Susan

Author:Nisha Susan [Susan, Nisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-09T22:00:00+00:00

VOICE TO VOICE, LIP TO LIP

thumri_girl: God bless Skype.

prince_nakshatram: God bless Skype.

The prince and the singer blessed Skype many times over the next few months. The singer was newly capable of flirtation. She was Gargi, she was Maitreyi, but she had oomph. She continued to criticise his favourite musicians. He only laughed and stayed to argue and sing at her, addressing her as if she was a drawing room audience in Dharwad.

Eventually, she could not resist telling her friends about her nocturnal adventures between the Indian and Austrian time zones. Friends of lovers usually introduce unwelcome prosaic notes, but in this case, the element I introduced was one that heightened the drama. I told the singer kindly that, from the clues he’d been dropping in their chats and conversations, he most probably was a real prince.

Me: Have you Googled him?

thumri_girl: Shut up!

Me: Then I’ll do it for you.

Despite her protestations, the prince was Googled and unmasked. It hadn’t been much of a mask, anyway, just one of those that elegantly reveal the nose and manly jawline, leaving only silly girls in doubt of his identity.

thumri_girl: You didn’t tell me, da.

prince_nakshatram: I’m sorry. It’s nice to be here and talk music with someone not from the concert circuit, someone who doesn’t know me, my gurus, my uncles and my mother.

I reminded the singer that royalty had a reputation for wandering incognito, usually on quests to win a prize or gain wisdom from new experiences, but she didn’t really need such an explanation. The singer was kind and railed against neither fat nor fact.

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