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Upon awakening, he goes back staring at it.
He says nothing.
For 15 years.
Even doctors have lost all hope.
It never stops.
Auntie thinks, it keeps him alive.
One day, there was
a power outage.
The fan stopped
and his pulse slowed.
Fortunately, the electricity came back.
Since Auntie installed a generator.
Her husband continues
to stare at the fan.
And mine stuck with his phone.
As if nothing else exists.
This might be true,
What do we live for?
Dear Ila,
Your husband sounds like a busy man.
Life is very busy these days.
There are too many people,
and everyone wants
what the other has.
Years ago, you could find a place
to sit in the train every now and then,
but these days, it's difficult.
If Mr. Deshpande wakes up now,
he will see the difference and probably
go back to his ceiling fan.
When my wife died,
she got a horizontal burial cot.
I tried to buy a burial cot for
myself the other day,
and what they offered
me was a vertical one.
standing in trains and buses,
now I'll even have to
stand when I'm dead! .
Why don't you
have another child?
Sometimes having a child
can help a marriage.
Rajeev?
What do you say?
It's pretty.
You forgot?
Rajeev, I wore it
on our honeymoon.
Today I thought to try it,
if it needed alterations.
But it suits me very well,
- Right?
- Yes.
It is a little wide.
Yes...
On our honeymoon, we didn't know
Yashvi will born.
We didn't know for a while.
Two months!
We didn't have much
at the time.
When she was born,
luck smiled on us.
Everything is so expensive today,
luck isn't enough.
Why do you send me
cauliflower every day?
Have you bought a stock?
Rajeev.
And what if Yashvi had a
little brother or sister?
You had one.
And...
Don't send me cauliflower everyday,
it gives me gas.
Cars, buses, airplanes:
This road is jam
since this morning.
You see that tower?
A woman jumped from there this morning
with her little girl.
She jumped with her daughter?
What was her name?
I don't know. I don't know.
Surely some domestic problems.
You know someone
who lives there?
Did she survive?
Hello.
This morning
my husband went to the office...
Hello, sir. How are you?
I'm busy.
And my training?
It's lunchtime.
Check back later.
I was told to expect nothing
from you.
I'm Aslam Shaikh.
I'm an orphan.
I gave myself that name.
All I know I taught myself.
And I will also learn this myself.
I'm done. Thank you very much.
Listen.
Come here.
Go to my desk.
There are claims files
of Ahmedabad sector.
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