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                              SHOULD A PERSON LOVE SO DEEP?

PROLOGUE

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The John Company grew from mere merchants to rulers of the princely Indian states. Then began the oppression of the subjects. White man's burden had started burdening India. The 1857 mutiny was a devastating blow to the John Company that shifted the regime to the Queen. The Struggle for Freedom intensified through humiliation, oppression, and massacres.

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The independence of British India came as an inconclusive verdict. The suzerainty of Kashmir was a Greek gift (=a treacherous gift) the British gave, and so, she was balkanized into India, West Pakistan, and East Pakistan.

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Since the liberation of Bangladesh, Pakistan has been bleeding red, and her wounds are green and visage impaled. The war-prone neighbor shells border posts in Kashmir very often. Time and time again, the friend-enemy violates the 1972 Shimla cartel, not realizing those who live by the gun die by the bullet.

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CHAPTER 1 RESFEBER (SWEDISH=THE FEELING OF FEAR AND EXCITEMENT BEFORE A JOURNEY BEGINS.)

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Her lissome figure is slenderer and more majestic than the four minarets, and more curvaceous than the Onion Dome of the Taj. Sara, clothed in elegance and grace, surpasses the beauty of the Taj Mahal. A beauty beholding the beauty of beauty.

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The greys of the gray gracing his wrinkled face.

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Coffee beans have been a wonder that leaves a long-lasting bittersweet finish in the mouth even after the coffee is finished.

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Stations pass by, and by and by, they go.

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The ever-changing world changes its color time after time, declaring nothing is permanent but the change. Even in the evens and uneven, always look for the odds.

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 He fits the trunk in the trunk. A three-hundred-kilometer journey to Srinagar starts with a vroom.  Hindustan Motors' masterpiece is Ambassador, a product designed for sturdiness, comfort, and beauty. It is yet another masterpiece owned by the industrialist family that built India, the Birla family.

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 CHAPTER 2 TORPE (FILIPINO=A MAN WHO IS  DESPERATELY IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN,BUT CANNOT ADMIT HIS FEELINGS OR APPROACH HER.)

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Love is the best worst thing that can ever happen to someone. Love is the panacea to the disease called love. From a spark of love to the bodies burning in passion, the fire of love both burns and heals at the same time. It burns the hearts in love; and heals the heart burnt in love.

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The bubble gum (=teen) heart is so sticky. Seeing beauty, it starts pounding harder. It sticks here; it sticks there.

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The way from the bum fluff (=the first beard growth of an adolescent) to mustache and beard is through the stubble. When twisting a mustache is twisting the world.

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Best friends make the best lovers.

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The ABC of love starts with p's and q's.

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Friendship is not an obligation to fall in love with.

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Cold coffee, cold drinks, cappuccino, and cake caress casual and carefree customers.

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O miss, your missish! (=having the faults of attributed to schoolgirls)

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CHAPTER 4 CHI KU (CHINESE=THE ABILITY OF ONE TO ENDURE HARDSHIP WITHOUT BECOMING A BITTER PERSON.)

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We all have a life to live and death to die, and in between myriads of opportunities to create, decisions to make, and failures to face. This in-between is life.

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March has marched into April. How transient is the time it is, and yet it passes by!

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Good books are better food and best friends.

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God made woman beautiful; haberdasher and tonsor made man.

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She knows she can't capture time, but she can only capture moments.

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Love is a good friend but a better enemy. Luster OF love is not lost in the lustre of time. Five years is a long-short time for things to change. The heart is the strongest weakness of those who are in love. Love is so blind that it only sees the heart it loves.

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Deep asks the mother as she be mothers the freshly decocted Darjeeling tea.

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CHAPTER 7 KARGIL

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The eagle-eyed hawk General Musharraf has been planning to wolf down the beautiful bird Kashmir, and so he plays the bird dog (=one who steals another's date) to the dove Atal Bihari Bajpayee. In the white of the snow on the neighbor white came four thousand black of the Northern Light Infantry. The cuckoos in the nest sneak in in brass monkey weather. It is a cold war in winter, the fog of war in summer, and the storm of war in the rain.

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'When wrapped in the shroud, I make my mother proud’.

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He could love tenderly, war fiercely, and die gracefully. Deep deliberately and defiantly dares to defy the dumbstruck and dumbfound death to death.

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The fourth of June 1999 with five o'clock shadow seen on Deep's face in the six o'clock evening sun.

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The lions are going to see the elephant (= to experience combat for the first time).

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The Indian lionhearts leapfrog and engage the Pakis in a fierce battle. The chicken-livered Pakis forced sitting ducks in their foxholes quail to have butterflies in the stomach and goosebumps in their flesh. Quailed and retreated and shuddered and terrified; eventually, bugs bugged out.

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Frustrated by the fiasco of the fleeing friendly forces from the front, furious foreigners fanatically fire fusillade.

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A bloodstained combatant damned eternally fell gracefully, honorably inhumed.

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Knowing death is the gory glory of war; the love of the country remains their first love. Will determined and spirit indomitable, a salute to the brave hearts of the Indian army!

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The tactical two thwarted the timid twenty.

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Let mothers be honored, warriors revered, and motherland exalted.

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There were promises to break and promises to keep.

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The flesh is but dust, the soul is but wind, life is but a moment, and promises are but words.

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The beat has gone from scar-faced heart, beauty from her face, and life from life. Neither there is any charm left in the beauty of the world nor her. She lives in the beauty of ugliness.

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Happy Reading!

Deepak David

G.D.Birla Memorial School

Ranikhet