Arthur Rimbaud

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He reaches home at his usual time, tired but still happy and enthusiastic to see her. The door is usually wide open ,he comes in keeps his jhola and topi on the hook behind the door before going any further he realises that she has a obsessive compulsive disorder regarding people not washing their feet before they come in, so he takes smiling face to the bathroom, he washes his feet, wipes them on the mat and enters. She is busy preparing food and looking after 5 noisy children and his forever complaining parents but still out of all this mess, she finds that one moment to have a look at his smile, she smiles back ,while keeping it all under control He sits down, she offers him water in a tambya . Later she serves him food, Sukhat(dry fish) along with a bhakri and thecha(spicy chilly crush) and some rice with dal. After he finishes eating, he sits on the khaat, She lays a chattai on the floor, they sleep. He wakes up at his regular time, after 1hour, He reaches his hand, towards his transistor and sets his usual frequency , where luckily today , songs of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi are being played, a regular rhythm of the tabla and taal,with lines like "Dyaniyacha Raja Guru Maharav" and"Sanvale Sundar Roop Manhor" are being heard through out the house, then amidst this music he looks for his chashma, he is also feeling a thirst for tea and a newspaper. And suddenly almost like a wizard she appears with a smile and with all of this, he is not suprised but he is happy that he has her. With this melodious music playing, sipping black tea, reading newspaper quietly is the best time of the day for him. After providing all of this to him, she finds her panacha dabba, adkeeta , a comb and her gangavan. She sits on the Ota cracking supari, and removing panache dets which she feeds to her smallest child, which is the only one around mostly(in evenings), she sets him off to play cricket outside, while she sits there, she combs her hair, and collects hair, to make a gangavaan for herself. In the meantime, he finishes his tea and starts wearing his white shirt ,pant and Gandhi topi, he sets off to roam all of Mazgoan and Byculla , God knows when he will come back............