Ganesh was a wonderful person. He was in his 50s. He had a wife and three children. He lived a comfortable life in Delhi in a high rise apartment. There were four rooms in his apartment and he got a room for himself.
Ganesh had varied interests. He was a lover of music. He had a high quality music system. He bought the music system just to listen to Fur Elise intently.
Ganesh loved drawing art. He was good in drawing in paper and got for himself all the imaginable materials. Pencils, crayons of all types. And different type of papers. All of these just to emulate Da Vinci drawings.
Ganesh however was sad. He was serving in Delhi government in the municipality division and was in-charge of sewage unit. His wife was in a top German electrical firm and was earning highly. They were married when love blossomed between them during college days. He was a man of passion and his wife then was a very practical girl. They thought they would be ideal partners.
Then there was a severe rift between them. His wife would often say she can take care of raising the children and he can move out.
One fine day he did move out with his pencils, drawing notebook and clothes for car cleaning to Murthal, Haryana. He had plans for leading a life in dhaba doing drawings for customers and cleaning their cars.
But he had to influence Captain(Retd.) Ranjeet Arora, who owned the dhaba. He met Captain Arora and showed him his drawings and cleaned and polished his car. Captain Arora was deeply impressed. Captain Arora promised him free breakfast, lunch and dinner in exchange for drawings to customers and cleaning their cars. Captain Arora, then asked about his background and family. But Ganesh did not say anything. And he requested Captain Arora not to enquire about his past.
Three years moved on. Ganesh impressed the customers to Murthal Dhaba with his cleaning the cars and selling drawings free of cost. He got breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the evening he would go to local temple and did meditation for 1 hour. At night he will sleep in his charpouy. He was leading a contended man.
One fine day customers came in a black Mercedes car. Captain Arora on seeing the brand of car immediately called for Ganesh and asked him to clean, polish the car and give them his best drawings free. Ganesh agreed.
After about an hour, the customers namely a woman and three grown up kids came up towards the black Mercedes car after having sumptuos dhaba meal. Captain Arora also came down with them.
Ganesh immediately recognized that the woman and the three grown up kids were his own family. His own blood relatives. His own world. The people who mattered the most. Ganesh started crying. He could not stop himself from weeping profusely. His wife also recognized Ganesh and there were tears in her eyes too. The kids then hugged their papa. Captain Arora who was watching the situation now fully understood what is what.
Captain Arora in his full military command style ordered the family to be together. Ordered the wife to take back Ganesh. Ordered Ganesh to show positivity. Ordered Ganesh and the family to lead a happy life. And ordered them to leave.
Ganesh, his wife and the three kids obeyed the orders of Captain Arora. And they all left in their black Mercedes.
. . . And Captain Arora for the first time in his life had tears in his eyes.
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