I am not Mahatma, Harshavardhan C [english novels for beginners .TXT] 📗

and the Queen of the Independent state of Jhansi in India, who fought against the British, resenting their proclamation of the act of the Doctrine of lapse)”

“Still you are trying to make me fool Arjun”

“No, no not al all dear”

“It is better to keep your mouth shut” She lost her temper and said seriously.

“Sorry, I am really sorry dear” He tried to do sit ups with his two hands crossed holding his ears.

She was still silent.

“I am sorry, I unconditionally tender my apologies to the womankind, are you satisfied now dear?”

“That’s fine” She said proudly.

“Please tell me the rest dear?” He requested.

“Well, the countdown ended between the Professor and me. And we both pressed the trigger of our guns”

“My God, unless you are an angel or a ghost, how come you are here today dear?”

“Shut up, how dare are you to call me demon?”

“I am sorry dear; I said you are an Angel. What I mean I just compared you with the Angle and not with demon. Pease try to understand your hubby positively dear” He requested her in utmost modesty.
“Congratulations for your excellent performance Arjun. But I know that you are no exception to be in the list of dirty dozen. Any way it’s okay as you are surrendering yourself in humility, I am obliging you” She continued.

“On that fateful day, surprisingly nothing happened to me. But, the Professor fell on the ground in a pool of blood”

“It is? It is quite surprising to note as how could you gun down the Professor? He was an important member of the Central Committee and how the other comrades and his bodyguards spared you dear?”

“Exactly, not only you but also everybody there suspected me. But they all understood me and accepted whole heartedly the universal fact that the end should justify the means.

Further I emphasized them that we were all human beings and that we shall be humane. It made them to think in terms of humanity. They all surrendered to me not for my velour but for my philosophy of humane in humanity.

I freed them all from the bondages in the name of ideology and isms. They neither looked back nor thought about the crimes, which were committed while they were in the organisation. I cleared their doubts and convinced them that the Professor was only responsible for all the crimes committed by the individuals or by groups. The Professor deserved capital punishment for his ghastly crimes. And hence I pronounced the final judgment and I only executed it. I wished all the comrades with prosperous career and to rejoin the main stream of the society” She concluded.

“Do you mean to say that just by exchanging fire, you could be able to do away with the professor?”

“Yes, do you have any doubt?”

“My God you seem to be an iron lady or a Robot and you didn’t care even the bullets and for you the bullets were just like roses in December offered to the Goddess of beauty”

“Arjun please don’t talk rubbish. I think you are a psychic, when I am seriously apprising you the facts, you are just cutting jokes and it is too much and you are just irritating me” She said seriously.

He never cared for her comments, but simply smiled at her.

“Even when I retaliated, there is no reaction in you Arjun. It means what I have suspected is hundred percent true, and it is better to send you for psychiatric treatment at least till completion of your probationary period of one year and till then our first night is postponed”

“Sorry, if I have hurt you, I am very sorry dear. But I humbly request you not to post phone our first night to 366th day dear, I am unable to change my under wears on and often even at the age of thirty plus”

“Shut up, you bloody joker” She looked at him seriously.

“Really I am speaking truth only dear. God has punished mankind, even if we wear supporters also, it will be exposed, but blessed are womankind and are gifted with possessiveness and also with care free mechanism”

“Mister don’t talk rot, and criticize womanhood” She took him a class.

“My God, I have forgotten to ask you as how you have fought with the Professor? If you have easily gun down him means, I think that he is not a gladiator? That is why you won the battle easily, isn’t it dear?” He tried to divert her attention.

“No, you are wrong mister. He was a well-trained comrade and was perfect in shooting. But he succumbed to his personal weaknesses. May be that was the reason why he could not win over the confidence of any of his comrades and failed miserably in winning their confidence and getting their support for his self-protection in true spirit. The greatest shock to the Professor was that the comrade, who had been serving him as a bodyguard for more than twenty five years had given him a weapon with empty magazine to shoot at me”

“Oh his own bodyguard betrayed him!”

“Yes of course, but it was not truly betrayal. His bodyguards and all the Comrades realized that they all were betrayed by the Professor, for his self-centred ideology “She concluded.

“Well done dear, but do you think that with these results only, could terrorism be put down in our state?”

“I think so”

“Can we guarantee that to our people?”

“As a cop you have to guarantee that. But having worked as a member of the banned organization, how can I guarantee that? But any way I am confident because all my comrades are sincerely on the job”

“What job“

“When I relinquished the commandership of the armed squad, I received calls from the other members of the central committee offering me the top position in the organisation. But when I denied their offer, I was suspected to be pro- cop by them. I was even threatened by the some of the members of the central committee and my comrades came to know that” she waited just to have a respire.

“What was their stand then dear?”

“They wanted to continue in the organization”

“What?”

“Yes”

“So it proves beyond any reasonable doubt that you have failed ultimately in your mission, isn’t it dear?”

“No, not at all, they only went back to finish their unfinished task”

“What task?”

“Let us see” She smiled.

“But, you said that there would not be any more militants and they all left the organization to rejoin the main stream of the society”

“Even now also I abide by my promise Arju”

“But, how could you assure it, when all your comrades deserted you dear?”

“They did not desert me. In fact they are with ne only. And still I am confident about their loyalty. You will be surprised to know that the so called sources, which the counter intelligence has planted in the left wing terrorism during this year are no other than my comrades only. If you want to conform, you better talk to you Additional DGP counter Intelligence”

“Oh my God. You are the secret source to my officer. I thank you dear. You have become not only my life partner but also in my profession too”

“Nothing great in me, it is only thing I could do for my parents Arju”

“But, your experience is only with one group of terrorists, and their ideology is only confined mostly eight to nine north-eastern states in India. Now, we have Islamic terrorism, an internationally popular moment, being instigated often by Indian Mujahedeen, Lashker I Toyiba, and Jasheer Mohammed, which have already taken their roots in India. Do you think that there may not be any more, hijackings, abductions, bomb blasts in India, and this calmness will continue?”

“Then, there is neither an end for terrorism nor we could end it in our life time” She was little disappointed.

“Don’t get disheartened dear? It is not an impossible task to put a stop to such insurgencies. In fact my mum has done some spade work. Her motivation, commitment to the country and the people is simply superb. As per her knowledge and experience is concerned, any kind of terror or terrorism will only disappear, when once it is wiped out from our crime minds” He had all praise for his mother.

“Yes Arju, I totally agree with aunt’s analysis. And I am very anxious to know who killed aunt and my mum? Is it the work of one or many?”

“Still you doubt our efforts and efficiency in the investigation of these cases dear?”

“No, but I want to know firsthand information from my hubby, before I could hear through anybody”

“Yes dear. It is our ultimate to unearth the mystery behind the gruesome murders of our noble parents. I tell you the details.

When we have flown in the air, mum and aunt exchanged their vehicles for security reasons. But it is exposed to both the cops and the Professor. When once the vehicles left airport, mum again called aunt back and they again exchanged their vehicles. But in the meantime, the OSD advised my mum to take aunt also with her. This time both of them travelled in the cop’s vehicle, where as in the call taxi mum’s gunmen travelled in another direction.

It was here a great blunder was committed. They were baby trapped. Mum blindly believed the advice of the OSD. She didn’t know the fact that the OSD, had already been killed by the Professor and the latter picked up his mobile phone and talked to my mum as if it were the OSD, the worst impersonation in the history of terrorism in the world.

In the meantime, the Professor instructed his armed squad to use long range automatic weapons to open fire at the call taxi. And he also leaked the information to a senior police officer that both my mum and aunty were travelling in cop’s car. And the jealous Police boss got arranged everything apple pie and blown up the cop’s car, thought that the people and the State would suspect that it was the clandestine operation by the militants. Thus in their evil designs and clandestine operations aunt, my mum and so also the gunmen and the drivers laid down their lives.

Now tell me dear, who is a real criminal?

Are the cops? Or the Professor? Or both?

Whom shall we punish? What shall be the punishment?”Arjun asked her seriously.

She couldn’t answer him at once. She was seriously thinking what had happened before their assassination.

“I am sorry to tell you Arju, your police investigation is quite perfunctory. For the first time you cops have failed quite miserably in investigating the cases of brutal murders by the terrorists. And I hope you appreciate my enquiry, which I personally conducted with the help of my comrades in the capacity of the commander of an armed squad. And I do believe that you are the better judge, since you are already taught about crime, enquiry, interrogation and investigation in your training”

“What?”

“Yes Arju”

“Then please tell me your findings dear?”

“It was true that a senior cop on one side and the militants on the other side were planning to do away with our mums for obvious reasons. But aunt showed her professionalism and she again rang back to the OSD, and still she could not get him and observed whether his mobile was switched off or out of calling area. Then as per their previous understanding, when there was communication gap between them for more than an hour, either of the one had to expressly put a message to the other, otherwise it was presumed that the other side officer was in a dangerous situation or in baby trap. When there was no message from the OSD, aunt had altogether taken a U- turn and both aunt and my mum travelled in cop’s vehicle and exposed to high risk. But, the religious fanatics were too smart and they did not forget the death blow and severe setback due to the fake encounter by aunt against the Indian Mujahedeen”

“Sorry, what do you say? Is it a fake encounter? I don’t’