Patna 800020

By Daisy Bala

Meet Dr Saheb, and the distinctive family members of Geeta Sadan from the neo modern small town of Patna. An upper middle-class nuclear family with incessant, pertinent middle-class issues. The eldest grown-up daughter who stays secluded, unmarried, the second daughter who’s guileless, eager to marry and the youngest daughter who’s too boisterous to marry and settle down. A son who’s the youngest and too busy cracking jokes and a mother who’s straight out of an Indian daily soap, struggling with the side effects of menopause and the pressure of marrying off three daughters. This clan will tug your heart strings with emotions of love, laughter, sorrows, and joy. So come and meet them today at Patna- 800020, as a gripping family drama unfolds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ukiyoto
• Release date: Jul 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005063139

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Patna 800020

A Family Drama Unfolds

Daisy Bala

Ukiyoto Publishing

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Ukiyoto Publishing

Published in 2021

Content Copyright © Daisy Bala

ISBN 9789354900068

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Dedicated to the light of my life.

Kiran.

Mother, I owe everything to you.

I bow down to you in reverence, love, gratitude and faith.

Acknowledgement

I am indebted to my Mom for catching me young and instilling the love of reading, writing in me. She was and forever will be my greatest inspiration and strength.

I would also like to thank Blogchatter for providing this motivation to go published. All the characters and events in this book are fictitious and loosely based on my childhood memories of summer holidays spent in Patna at my Granns!

Introduction

Meet Dr Saheb, and the distinctive family members of Geeta Sadan from the neo modern small town of Patna. An upper middle-class nuclear family with incessant, pertinent middle-class issues. The eldest grown-up daughter who stays secluded, unmarried, the second daughter who’s guileless, eager to marry and the youngest daughter who’s too boisterous to marry and settle down. A son who’s the youngest and too busy cracking jokes and a mother who’s straight out of an Indian daily soap, struggling with the side effects of menopause and the pressure of marrying off three daughters. This clan will tug your heart strings with emotions of love, laughter, sorrows, and joy. So come and meet them today at Patna 800020, as a gripping family drama unfolds.

Chapter 1

India 2021

Amidst the neo modern small-town hullaballoo, Patna, remained modest and virgin, incandescent and minimalistic at heart. Dozing off in simplicity and rising early in candor, today, this historic city geared for another eventful morning. Early daybreak refulgence painted the sky with tangerine hues and the crisp hydrating wafts promised a gleeful day. Ganga ghats buzzed in usual humdrum, Gandhi Maidan churned greenery and zeal for religious walkers, dhaabaas in Kadam Kuan diffused grey charcoal smoke setting the rustic mood for the day and euphonic mandir gongs-chants offered unsolicited positivity in plenty. The roadside garbage dumps were just starting to linger in the heat and the humped bull was too lazy to move