Renjith looked at the clock of his laptop it was 4:06PM it
was moody and cloudy out side
He had a bit of dejavu
he was now lost in thought he
remembered the old days how an IAS aspirant became
a business man and a multiple Pulitzer price wining author
He rembered that
life changing discussion with his
grandfather and his research
As he was lost in thought
he felt a small hand come and close his eyes from behind
He smiled it was his son Arjun, Renjith smiled and peered
his son’s hands from his eyes
All had happened quickly that Renjith felt that it had just
happened yesterday
His marriage with Bhairavi Singh was a shock to his family
she was a Kachwa Rajput princess whom Renjith had fallen in love with
He proposed to her in the city palace at Jaipur which she
duly accepted there was some resistance at first on both ends but then finally
it was accepted and a whirlwind marriage of 21 days happened
Both Renjith and Bhairavi operated as a team they were so
synced that each knew what the others were thinking
To the people she was like a goddess earning him the sobriquet
Amma tampurati or Queen mother
She returned the love she got from her adopted subjects by
playing an active part in the community
The Prince and princess had 3 more kids other than Arjun two
more Boys Kartaveera Arjun and Vishnu Guptan and one Girl who Bhairavi named Gayathri
Devi in honor of one of her ancestors the Queen Mother of Jaipur Gayathri Devi
As the years passed the prince was counted as one of the
most brilliant business men India had ever seen with investments ranging from
education to oil and gas
With wide ranging business interest the prince spun off his foreign business interest under
the name the Royal Malabar international
in time the for princes and princess grew in to well-groomed lady and
gentlemen who were the apple in the eyes
of the people of kovilanagdi
Arjun eased in to his family business two of his brothers
joined the defense services
And rose to high positions within the service all were
married to royal women
With Arjun and Kartaveera Arjun marrying from the same
family as his mother and his younger brother marrying from the aristocratic
family of dogras
Gayathri Devi was married to the family of Jaisalmer
With his kids settled and happy married Renjith and his wife
withdrew one step at a time form the public lime light
As their respective ages had started to get to them
unbenousend to any one
Renjith had made a quaint little cottage for him and his
wife to retire to
He had Sanju draft up a will of transfer which invested all
of the defacto powers in
His eldest son Arjun this was done after much debate within
the family and after knowing the opion of the people
Everyone had agreed that Arjun would be the right candidate
for the job
After having drawn up the will the fateful day came when the
sixth Prince and princess abdicated in favour of the younger ones
Renjith and biravi was in no way poor he had judiously invested
in retirement plans for both him and her
So that they would be independent of their kids.
They had a happy life
in their cottage in kodug from
they used to visit their kids and vice
versa as Renjith and Biravi were
religious they would travel to far
off pilgrimage sites like the harimadir
sahib or the vishno devi temple
They met their end while on a trip to Armarnath when terrorist
ambushed the bus they were travelling but they were inseparable even in death
as both had died while propecting each other from the shower of bullets
It also kind off seemed fitting in a macabre sort of way
that Renjith and biravi were also killed by the same kind of ideology that had
been the fuel for the Mappila riots all those years ago only the names changed
the places changed but the idea and supporters hadn’t changed so in a way they
were the latest victims of the Maphilla rebellion.
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