For a Mere Cup of Tea

By Hiranya Borah

It is a fictional story on complex human relations surrounding the protagonist which surfaced before the people who matters to him after a plane crash. Unlike my earlier short stories on Plane Crash, Plane Crash-II, Plane Crash-III and Plane Crash-IV, this story is not confined to the plane crash though it revolves around a fictional plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. One can also find it as a romantic story of the protagonist, Kanak Barua who survived a plane crash while he was travelling from New Delhi to New York. Hopefully, the story will give the readers some insight to the complex human relations due to turn of events, some survival tips if someone has to land on an uninhabited island and some feeling of un-adulterated love for a young girl of the protagonist under some compulsive trying situations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hiranya Borah
• Release date: Jul 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463821022

Hiranya Borah

Born in a teachers' family in a village of Assam, a province of India, Borah started his journey of writing at a tender age of eleven. He published two novels in Assamese language and other fictional and non-fictional stories in Assamese periodicals during his college days. Then Borah almost stopped his literary activity for more than three decades. In the meantime he became a Gender specialist.However,so far, he has published more than one hundred and sixty five books on this platform in English and one book in Hindi within a span of five years. The books are on different topics like inspiration,romance and love, humour, ghosts, suspense thriller, children etc and those are written both in prose and poetry.Eight English and two Assamese books are also available in printed form. 2nd edition of his first book, 'Random Thoughts' is also in the public domain.

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For a Mere Cup of Tea

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By Hiranya Borah

Copyright 2019 Hiranya Borah

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Preface

It is a fictional story on complex human relations surrounding the protagonist which surfaced before the people who matters to him after a plane crash. Unlike my earlier short stories on Plane Crash, Plane Crash-II, Plane Crash-III and Plane Crash-IV, this story is not confined to the plane crash though it revolves around a fictional plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. One can also find it as a romantic story of the protagonist, Kanak Barua who survived a plane crash while he was travelling from New Delhi to New York. Hopefully, the story will give the readers some insight to the complex human relations due to turn of events, some survival tips if someone has to land on an uninhabited island and some feeling of un-adulterated love for a young girl of the protagonist under some compulsive trying situations.

The story starts rolling, when Kanak got a snubbing for even a cup of tea from his sweetheart. That small but significant incident changed the course of the emotional life of Kanak. That is the backbone of this medium sized ebook, ‘For a Mere Cup of Tea’.

The life of Jayati, the second protagonist of the story is nothing but a sad story of a common neglected girl of rural India who is always neglected and humiliated by her own family members till she became an ATM for the family members; but even then, she was not loved by any of her close relatives except, perhaps by her mother.

Photographs used on the cover page have no relation with the story of the ebook. However, for using their photographs, I am thankful to Julie, Jahnabi and an unknown girl (her photo is used in such a way that from the photograph, she cannot be identified).

I thank all my friends and relatives for their encouraging words on my writings. I am thankful to my core family members for their constant support in all my endeavours. My sincere thanks are always due for Smashwords for their support in publishing my ebooks on their platform.

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Chapter I: An Un-Happy Couple

Kanak Barua was born to a rich farmer’s family more than five decades ago, as a pampered male child of rural India. He was born after a brother and a sister. There was a huge gap between him and his elder sister and his elder brother. His elder brother, Jayanta was ten years’ older than him and his sister, Pallavi was seven years’ six months’ older than him. None thought an unwanted pregnancy would hit Kanak’s mother, Arati after Pallavi’s birth even though she did not take any precaution because she did not conceive for more than six years after birth of Pallavi. When Arati, became pregnant, initially she thought that she was missing periods prior to attaining menopause. Actually she was totally wrong on her assessment as she was hardly 35 at that time. However, only after three months of missing her period, when baby bump was becoming visible, Kanak’s father Bikash Barua took his wife to a lady doctor to examine her and the lady doctor confirmed that Arati was pregnant. Though initially, the couple was perplexed at the news of the pregnancy, both of them welcomed the news as a boon of the Almighty. His parents, finally, became very happy at his birth.

Therefore, he got all the attentions from his parents and his elder siblings as a new comer to the family. His mother took care of her youngest child as much as possible. In fact, she used to take care of Kanak more than what she used to care for his elder siblings few years ago. He was probably few of the luckiest children of rural India, who got all types of dolls and playing tools, a child can have aspired for.

When Kanak went to class IV, the elder brother was in a medical college and his sister was in Cotton College as a higher secondary student. Because of love from all the senior members of the family, Kanak acquired all the vices as a spoilt child of a rich person can have. He developed a feeling that everyone should love him and give due importance to all his tantrums. That is the problem why he was hurt many times while facing the real world and world of love. However, to his credit, he was extraordinarily brilliant in his studies as well as in extra-curricular activities.

As he grew, his knowledge on the subjects he used to study, expanded exponentially to the delight of his parents, brother, sister and teachers. As mentioned above, he was not only good in his studies but also equally good in extra-curricular activities which gave him an added advantage to become closer to his teachers. Kanak had an extra-ordinary photographic memory to the surprise of all his peers and teachers.

Since he had extra-ordinary memory along with extra-ordinary understanding capacity, he had lot of spare time to have some devilish thinking and actions.

As Kanak became a teen-ager, like many of us took interest in sexual adventures and unfortunately developed a myth that sex is the only way to ventilate tension and is a good way to dominate a lady. He used to spend, like many other intelligent boys, his leisure time in reading some third rated pornographic books and started fantasise all those nonsense.

Anyway, he did a brilliant result in his matriculation examination and for his higher secondary, he went to Cotton College, the best college of the entire North Eastern Region of India.

A very important moment came into his life in a college function when he was in his second year of Higher Secondary, he fell in love with an unknown girl on the very first look on her eyes. That was his first love for a particular girl, free from any sexual desire. Her eyes were beautiful and her skin was too smooth to take away his eyes from her face and body. She had a wonderful physique as well. As Kanak was not knowing about the girl, he could not sleep many nights asking himself who was she.

Finally, he came to know that she was a student of Handique Girls’ College, nearest college from his own college Cotton College and her name was Anamika, one year junior to him.

Kanak took long six months to propose her, as he came to know that she had some inclination towards another boy of his own class. However, Anamika accepted his proposal and their love affairs continued for another two years. However, they had to break their relation after two years at the behest of Kanak himself due to the constant pressure from his own family, particularly from his mother. Barua family was very much against having a relation with a girl from a different caste. So he became a victim of Hypocrisy number one of Assamese people that they are not casteists.

In due course of time, Kanak shifted his base to Delhi for his higher studies. An extremely aristocratic Girl, Uma from Delhi stole the heart of Kanak. She was a nice beautiful girl. This time when Kanak told his love affairs with Uma, her mother did not object to the affairs, may be due to because of her casteists’ mentality or because of her opulence.

But their love affairs had an abrupt end as Uma was married to an unknown boy by her parents which Uma could not dare to refuse. But on the last day of her final examination of the Master Degree, Uma put hundred kisses on Kanak’s face and allowed Kanak to kiss on her bare bosom. She also promised him to meet him again after her marriage. Unfortunately or fortunately for Kanak, she did not keep her promise.

For the next few months, Kanak lived like a proverbial Devdas, till he gets a girl from Haryana, Komal. Komal was not a very beautiful girl compared to Uma, but she was very caring and her heart