The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Per J Andersson

Author:Per J Andersson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

They arrived at the fountain at around six o’clock, and PK started hanging out his paintings. Lotta helped him. He watched as she hooked them onto the cardboard screens. God, let this woman be my future wife, he thought, as he sat down on his stool. He then began working on the queue of people waiting. She sat close to him. He finished four drawings before they decided to pack up and go to the cinema instead.

Hundreds of people stood outside the Plaza. The queue for the box office snaked out into the street. Sholay had had its premiere six months previously, but it still drew full houses. They stood and looked at the hand-painted posters of Amitabh Bachchan pumping the bad guys full of lead from his machine gun. Once inside, they looked down on the stalls from their seats in the balcony and saw that most of the audience was made up of single men, gazing longingly back at them.

The movie started and he translated for her. But he paused when Lata Mangeshkar began to sing ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’, leaned back and just listened. Lotta moved closer to him during the film’s more colourful dances, rested her head against his shoulder and put her hand in his. The fear, which he had been keeping at bay since leaving the zoo, returned with force. What did it all mean? Was there a higher power trying to tell him something? Was this how love began? He knew nothing and realized just how inexperienced he really was. He felt twelve years old again.

What will be will be. He had to overcome his misgivings. We have already started a new togetherness, he said to himself. Our souls are on the same wavelength.

He leaned forward and kissed her forehead.

‘Maheswari Ma, Ma Maheswari’, he whispered. A prayer to the same jungle goddess his mother used to call on in times of need.

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