"Your eyes... my eyes" "Your forehead... your nose" "Your lips" "My heart, your brains" "No... not your brains." "You´re a duffer" "All right." "Your heart." "And your brains." "Okay?" "Listen..." "What?" "What will we name our son?" "Son?" "No son, I want a daughter." "Why?" "Just like you" "But I want sons after that, okay?" "Want to know how many?" "Let´s settle for a dozen" "Twelve!" "My companion... my love... for the first time, my eyes see Spring like this" "What spell does the lovely weather cast...?" "you have stolen my heart, my love" "For the first time, my eyes see Spring like this" "What spell does the lovely weather cast...?" "you have stolen my heart, my love" "I was thirsty at heart... and I drank the sea in a single gulp" "In just a matter of moments... in just a day or two... I have lived the lifetime of a hundred years" "This is the first time I see life so clearly... the lovely weather, this moment of ecstasy... what spell has the weather cast on me?" "You have stolen my heart, my love" "Maya..." "What happened, Maya?" "I´m afraid..." "what if something happens to you?" "To me...?" "Silly girl." "What´s going to happen to me?" "No power on earth can separate us" "Roses, I saw blossoming... but even thorns blossom today" "People, I saw meeting... I see the earth and the skies meeting today" "For the first time, I have begun to trust my life..." "This lovely weather, this ecstatic moment... what spell has the weather cast...?" "You have stolen my heart, my love" "For the first time, my eyes see Spring like this" "What spell does the lovely weather cast...?" "you have stolen my heart, my love" "This is Dr Akash Bhatnagar." "My wife is trapped in the floods lt´s your duty to..." "We can´t do anything about it" "We really don´t have any transport" "There are landslides everywhere out there" "But you can surely do something!" "My wife is a doctor and she has herself volunteered. lt´s your duty... I know all that, sir." "But we don´t have any transport I´ve heard it all!" "Please don´t keep repeating it" "Our soldiers are posted there, sir" "There must be a phone there surely?" "Where are you?" "I´m worried sick looking for you" "Neither do I know where l am I´m some 40 kilometers away from the base camp" "Are you all right?" "Nothing´s happened to you, I hope?" "I want to come there to bring you back, Maya" "Don´t come here, Akki." "We´re getting out of here I want to see you" "Don´t l want to see you too?" "I´m coming over" "Come soon, Maya I´m scared..." "what if something happens?" "Nothing will happen to me, Akki!" "The locket of Lord Ganesha you gave me... on our first anniversary, is still with me" "Nothing will happen to me, Akki" "Nothing´s going to happen to me" "Maya Bhatnagar wasn´t just a doctor." "She was God´s gift to society" "She didn´t treat medical practice like a profession, it was her religion" "Each one of us here works to gain something" "But Maya always wanted to give, she wished to serve" "She never treated her little patients any less than her own children" "People had started believing that Maya possessed some divine talent" "More than medicines, Maya has cured several patients... with her love and care" "We know, no one in the hospital will be able to take her place" "The loss of Maya we shall feel forever" "There was no doubt that the accident in which Maya died... was so horrible, that no one could have survived it" "I wonder how Maya must have died" "They say, you can say from the face of the dead... whether they´ve had a peaceful death, or a horrible one" "It had become very necessary for me to see Maya´s face" "Finish your enquiry as fast as possible lt´s raining heavily, it could get worse" "We won´t be able to get out of here, sir" "You said it was 80 kilometers." "This is 1 10 kilometers extra" "How much money are you going to spend?" "Here we are, sir" "Hurry up, sir!" "It´s pouring heavily I´m willing wait here for some more time, Officer." "Please!" "It´s raining so heavily, we don´t know where whose body has gone I advise you to return." "I´m staying here I´m staying here till your operation is over" "Believe me, sir." "The operation is over" "Deep down in my heart, I probably wished that we didn´t find Maya´s body" "Because in that wish of mine, was hidden a hope" "The hope of Maya being alive I can´t say about others, but that was the hope I lived on" "Victims of the accident that took place this morning have been admitted" "How many of them?" "6 have arrived... 6 of them have yet to be admitted" "She was in that bus too, doctor" "Take her to the O.T. immediately and prepare for an operation" "Doctor, this patient has 80º/.º/. burns..." "Take him to the burns ward." "Quick!" "Anymore casualties?" "Not as yet" "This girl tried to commit suicide." "If there was anymore delay, maybe..." "Let Dr Mehta handle this case" "But Dr Mehta´s handling the pregnancy case lf you could attend to this one..." "Now look, nurse I am the who decides who handles which case I don´t want to see patients who themselves don´t wish to live" "Ask Dr Mehta to handle the case." "Tell him those are my instructions" "Chances of survival if the pregnancy is terminated?" "Difficult, sir" "We need to do something" "We need permission to terminate the pregnancy" "We don´t need it for the delivery, do we?" "What do you think?" "Was that the right decision you made?" "I think it was right." "To do an abortion on a woman... 6 months pregnant, a caesarean!" "That too, without her permission!" "The woman was unconscious. lt was not possible to save both of them I couldn´t save the mother, but I somehow saved the baby" "You refused to handle that suicide case too I entrusted it to Dr. Mehta." "Why?" "Because you thought that patient wasn´t worthy of you?" "Can we talk about this tomorrow?" "Ever since Maya has died... you´ve been working round the clock for the last seven days" "That hasn´t affected my efficiency ln fact, your efficiency has received a great boost" "My hospital does not need so much of efficiency" "The rest of my staff can´t take it" "The staff also complain that you have become very irritable of late I think you need to rest" "After Maya´s death, maybe you haven´t still cried enough" "So you want me to stop working?" "Go home and mourn the loss?" "What is the name of the girl who tried to end her life?" "Janki." "Ward number?" "Since Mr Goenka insisted, I had to tell him that you..." "Why did you bring me back?" "From where?" "From that world, which is far better than this one" "Have you seen that world?" "No" "So how can you say it´s a better world than this one?" "Because I have seen this world." "Why did you bring me back?" "Love is beautiful, Janki" "Not when you see with my eyes" "Why not look at it through my eyes?" "If you did, you´d know..." "how much life means" "Why must I look at it through your eyes?" "Maybe not mine, look at it through the eyes of those who love you" "What happens of them?" "You will leave only questions for them" "Questions, they´ll seek answers to, all their lives" "I´ve lost someone too." "In an accident I know what the anguish of losing someone is" "All I will tell you is, whatever there is... is right here" "There´s nothing there" "Whatever we gain, we gain here" "Whatever we lose, we lose right here" "Why do you want to lose what you´ve got?" "You don´t get to live every now and then?" "You don´t get anything a second time." "Nothing" "Why hasn´t Akash come yet?" "He said he´d be coming I wonder where he´s held up." "Good for him if he comes" "A couple of drinks will make him feel better" "He´s going to go mad." "He´s thinking of Maya all the time" "And he´ll get nothing out of that." "He must accept what has happened" "He must, no doubt." "But you know how sensitive he is about Maya" "Here´s some beer for you" "Richard, get another beer" "What have you been talking about?" "About you" "You´ll live a hundred years." "Thank of you, and there you are" "Live a hundred years!" "Isn´t that what you told Maya so many times too?" "And what happened?" "Did she live a hundred years?" "Where are you going...?" "Where...?" "Sit down I´ve ruined your evening" "It was a slip of the tongue, I´m sorry" "Hasn´t your cough been cured yet?" "Did you take that cough syrup I gave you?" "You never listen to me." "I´ll take it... stop being a doctor so late in the night" "You´re always feeding me a dose of medicine" "All right, give me 22 rupees" "22 rupees?" "I must ask for much more" "Because what I´m going to give you is worth much more" "Maya´s parcel has arrived." "I had to pay 22 rupees as postage" "Let me have it" "Maya´s parcel...?" "How can it arrive?" "Six months old." "Thanks to the postal department, it arrives now" "Here you are." "Revive old memories and keep awake all night for all I care" "Hey!" "My 22 rupees!" "I owe it as a friend." "I´ll return it to you" "That parrot of yours makes a lot of noise" "Take him with you tomorrow." "And go to bed early" "What´s the matter?" "Tanya was complaining about you" "You are my life." "You are with me... I no longer care for this world I´ll take a life, I´ll give up my life... I don´t care what price I have to pay" "You are my life." "You are with me..." "There´s no other desire like your love... for yours is a love that is not put on" "Nature has bestowed on you unparalleled beauty... it is untouched by the corruption in the world" "I must have it at any cost... I don´t care, even if I have to lose my life for it" "You are my life." "You are with me..." "You are my God, you are my faith... that you love me, is a great favour to me" "You are the brightness of the morning for me... for me, you are a silken evening" "I wish to live in your heart all my life... I care not for another nest" "You are my life." "You are with me... I no longer care for this world" "You´re not going there Maya." "I am!" "People there are dying in the floods." "Children, women, the old..." "And no doctor is willing to go there." "I am going there" "There is the problem of militancy." "It´s very dangerous there" "Please don´t be stubborn." "You are the one who´s being stubborn" "Don´t go is all you´ve been saying for the last two days" "As a doctor, how can you stop another doctor from doing her duty?" "Why must only doctors from Delhi go the Burma borders to perform their duty?" "Are there no doctors in Calcutta, Assam, Mizoram and Manipur?" "There are." "But they are not interested in going to the Burma borders ln fact, no one wants to go there" "Not doctors, not engineers, not even the politicians" "Why would anyone go there?" "Not everyone is naive like you I´m better off being naive" "You´re not going all alone" "You´re carrying my baby with you" "You need to rest." "Akki... you were the one who said, we´re doctors first, everything else later" "Have faith in me. I´ll look after myself and look after my baby too" "Please." "Let me go lf you really love me, you mustn´t go lf you really love me, you will not stop me from going there" "What will he teach me?" "He´s an ass!" "So you teach him." "That´s what I´ve got to do" "He´s an ass!" "So tell me." "How many years have you known Akash?" "5 years." "5 years" "How many years will you tolerate him?" "Looks like I´ll have to tolerate him all my life" "All your life...?" "What if he dies before you?" "I´ll go away before you I´ll go away before you, but I won´t stop following you I´ll come to meet you every day." "Every day!" "You´re so worried about a paper-weight?" "How could it fall on its own?" "Why not?" "It´s so simple." "It´s not simple." "Maya was the one who gave me that paper-weight" "So?" "Not just the paper-weight I found the projector on too." "You must´ve left it on" "Unless someone manually switches on the project, it can´t come on, Tanya" "So what are you trying to tell me?" "That Maya came to you last night?" "She was the one who switched on the projector?" "And dropped the paper-weight?" "How else did it all happen?" "It happened because you still haven´t accepted that Maya is no more, Akash lt happens." "It happened to me too" "When someone you love so dearly goes away suddenly... we are just not willing to accept the truth" "For a few days, we feel as if they´re somewhere around us" "That´s what you must be feeling too." "I mean... probably that paper-weight was on the edge, and slipped off" "But you..." "Ever since Maya has gone away, it´s very strange at home" "Bittu has fallen silent too" "Whenever Maya knocked at the door earlier... he´d begin chanting, Maya´s back!" "Maya´s back!" "It says nothing now." "A scary silence has descended on the house" "Akash, take a few days off" "My flight´s taking off for Goa l had promised Maya that I would look after her patients" "Take care, Akash" "I know what´s playing on your mind right now" "Just that I´ve made you wait six months for a little favour I´m happy you have helped me, even if it´s a bit late" "You take instant decisions during surgery... but official matters take time" "I´m not a very bad man. lt´s just that I have my own responsibilities" "Which is why..." "I´ve got to be a bit firm at times" "There´s something more I´ve got to tell you" "You´re going to work where Maya used to work and I hope... you will not give anyone cause for complaint" "Just as Maya loved children and treated them... I´ll do that too, Dr. Goenka" "Happiness of the past is always painful" "Despite knowing that, I started spending my nights... in Maya´s ward, to escape loneliness" "I had no other way of finding peace of mind" "Like everyone else, I did not believe God, souls and rebirth... which give us only false hopes." "Little did I know... that faith would cast its rays on my life... that would gradually develop into an ocean... and change the course of my life" "Akki!" "Can you hear me?" "It has happened earlier, doctor" "Twice earlier, we thought Nakul was dead" "There was nothing to tell us that he was alive" "And he suddenly returns to life." "He says... he has passed through some tunnel... where there was a lot of light and everything was very clear" "Do you believe in such things?" "I didn´t earlier" "But the last time Nakul came back... he told me that he had met my elder sister" "After just an hour, I got a call from my village... that my elder sister had passed away" "I´m Dr Akash Bhatnagar ln any case, you don´t need an introduction in Dr Maya´s ward" "The child who was brought into the icu... what was his name?" "Can I meet him?" "Dr Maya used to ask about him the moment she arrived too" "She used to love him very much I want to see Nakul" "How is he now?" "See for yourself" "He´s been drawing as if nothing had happened to him" "You like to draw?" "What are you drawing?" "I don´t know. I´ve been thinking about it, ever since I came around" "Last night you were shocked, weren´t you uncle?" "Last night?" "When?" "When your glasses got wet" "How do you know?" "I was watching you" "Watching me?" "Yes, from the ceiling" "Nakul, do your drawings, talk less" "Nurse, I have to talk to him." "You can´t, doctor" "We have strict instruction from the hospital authorities" "We must discourage patients from talking like that" "Talking like what?" "Like Sister Martha used to" "She used to record the experiences of the dead who came back to life" "She used to quiz them in a way that would make them uneasy" "But Sister Martha never met me." "Had she, I´d have told her so much I remember everything that I had seen there" "Doctor, I have to check on a patient at ward two. I´ll be back soon" "Do you know my name, Nakul?" "Akash, Have you heard it before?" "Akash" "Akki" "Maya´s Akki?" "Yes..." "Maya´s Akki I met Maya too yesterday" "Where?" "I don´t know lt was so bright there and water everywhere" "She was saying something?" "What was she saying?" "What was she saying, Nakul?" "What was she saying, Nakul?" "Akki!" "Akki!" "According to recent medical studies, all those who have had... near-death experience say that there´s a tunnel, brightness..." "That´s what most of them say I wonder why" "Let me explain." "Medical science studies show that after death... the cornea slowly shrinks and creates a tunnel-shaped image in the brain" "But Akash says the boy remembers much more" "Like, Akash´s entry into the room, watching him on the sly..." "Could be." "The body dies but the brain doesn´t die instantly" "The brain saves those impressions that the person sees before his death" "When did he see a drop of water falling on my glasses?" "He was never around" "He was dying when he was being taken away in a stretcher I felt as if he was calling out to me Akki" "Only your daughter used to call me Akki, no one else" "You are a psychiatrist, Neha." "What do you have to say?" "Papa, a psychiatrist first listens." "I would like to hear from Akash" "What does he feel these days?" "These days?" "What do you mean?" "I have told you all that what is happening with me" "All but one thing." "Do you really feel that Maya is calling out to you?" "I don´t think so." "Check yourself, Akash" "Could it be that you are scared of telling the truth?" "Papa, I´ll be back" "Akash, I won´t charge you fees if you consult me I don´t need to." "I knew that would be your answer I´d like to tell you something I didn´t tell you back there" "Maya was not merely my wife, she was a friend, she meant everything to me" "Yes, I miss her." "And I feel that she is somewhere around trying to meet me" "But that doesn´t mean that I have forgotten the truth I know that I can´t get back Maya ever again" "Wait, Akash." "Don´t leave like that" "Pour your heart out and feel less burdened I don´t need to tell anyone what I feel and what I don´t" "Sometimes fragrance, sometimes a waft... sometimes I feel it´s the breeze" "You are far away from me... yet I feel you are within me" "This only thought... keeps me away at nights" "Should I sleep... I would dream about you" "And when at dawn... my eyes open... like the stars... you would vanish too" "Coming to me and going away... hurts... hurts a lot" "You are far away from me... yet I feel you are within me" "What´s your name?" "Biren I´m Akash." "I know" "Your sketches are so lovely" "She is calling out to you" "Who is calling out to me?" "She said she was a doctor here" "Doctor?" "Who?" "Her picture is hung near the corridor" "The one who has worn Santa Claus´ gown" "She´s calling out to you, uncle Akash" "I don´t understand anything." "When I was being brought here... I saw her in my dream lsn´t she dead, uncle?" "Was it only a dream?" "Probably" "But she is calling you, uncle." "Where is she calling me?" "All right, have we met before?" "I don´t know" "Then how do you know me?" "She showed me a picture of yours" "Where?" "Where did she show you my picture?" "In some picture?" "In my mind" "Can you tell me where you met her?" "Do you know the place?" "Over there" "There?" "How will I get there?" "How does one get there?" "I don´t know" "The boy in room 302...?" "302?" "Biren?" "Yes." "Did he know my wife?" "I´ll check, hang on" "No doctor, this is the first time the boy is admitted here" "That too only two weeks back" "Knowing your wife is just out of question" "Nakul was a patient who was everyone´s pet" "His coming back to life and saying that he met Maya..." "Chocolate for your coffee?" "No" "Nakul says that Maya is in some place where it´s full of light... and water all around" "Biren too says Maya is calling me out there" "Too much sugar, no?" "Why aren´t you listening to me?" "What´s all this about chocolate and coffee?" "I wish to tell you something" "And I intend to distract you from all these things that are unrealistic" "Unrealistic?" "How can you be sure?" "Four years ago when Vinod passed away... and I was running crazy looking for him everywhere, you helped me out I said he´s alive and he´ll return and you used to tell me it´s absurd" "Didn´t you say that?" "But Tanya..." "But what?" "Have you forgotten?" "So many times you and Maya... brought me back from the accident site where l used to wait for Vinod" "Because I felt he was alive and he´d return l lost a year and a half of my life just to understand that... a person never returns from the dead I don´t want you to lose years of your life too" "All that I told you is real" "Akash, you are a doctor." "How could you believe all this?" "What explanation does all this have scientifically?" "If you think too much about it, you will go crazy" "Stay away from all those things that remind you of Maya" "It´s Maya!" "Maya is here!" "Come with me!" "Come on." "What´s the matter?" "My house is flooded with water, Tanya." "Water...?" "Please come with me." "How come?" "Come in and see." "Every room is flooded upto the knees" "You must´ve kept the tap open." "Go inside and see" "Come on." "I´m not going in I can´t." "You go in and see" "Where is the water?" "It was right here." "Then where did it go?" "It was flooded upto the knees, right?" "I cannot even see a drop." "Where is it?" "I´m not lying." "Look at me." "Look at my clothes, they are still wet l didn´t get wet just like that." "You are always talking like a madman" "Won´t your clothes get wet if you stay under the shower?" "You´re going insane, Akki." "No, I´m not insane!" "You´re going insane!" "You have lost it!" "No!" "I have not lost it!" "Trust me, the room was full of water, this floor was under the water" "Water was gushing out of these very walls" "Everything was sinking here like Maya´s bus..." "You must help yourself." "I can´t help you." "No one can" "Get a hold on yourself" "Kavita, get up." "What is it?" "Akash is on the line." "Akash?" "At this hour?" "Go on, Akash" "I see weird things" "I think I´m going insane" "What time you´ll be there at the clinic tomorrow?" "At ten" "All right." "I can come rightaway if you want" "Doctor, you know that Dr Goenka..." "Where´s Nakul?" "In the pathology ward" "But please don´t try to meet him." "Dr Goenka has forbidden..." "Who the hell is Dr Goenka?" "Administrator of this hospital" "You are a doctor, and you are out to make the patients´ health worse lt is my duty to check such doctors." "What have I done?" "Nakul is very critical now, and it happened only after your visit" "Yes, I can very well do that I have done it before too" "There was one Sister Martha" "She used to ask the patients where they had been and what they had seen... after death and before reviving." "You too want to do something so silly I revoke the permission that I had given you for visiting children´s ward" "You are a brilliant doctor, that´s why I wouldn´t want to lose you" "All around, everywhere, all over... it is His light that is spread" "Yes, it is His light" "An ocean of light... somewhere there is surely" "An ocean of light... somewhere there is surely" "Father, I want to meet Sister Martha I can´t allow you to meet Sister Martha" "Why?" "I don´t need to tell you why" "Father please, just for a while" "Do not make it worse for us." "Leave before the police arrive" "Sister Martha, I want to talk to you." "Go away. I can´t talk to you" "It´s already a mess." "I don´t care" "But I do." "Journalists and interviewers like you have harassed me enough" "Sister, I am none of them." "I´m a doctor" "My wife too was a doctor before she died in an accident" "And I feel she is trying to reach for me" "What´s your name?" "Akash" "Akash Bhatnagar" "And your wife´s name?" "Maya?" "Leave before the police arrive." "Help me, Sister I say, go away." "Take him away." "I want to talk to you about Maya" "Hear me out, Sister" "The earth and the sky... the moon and the sun... has any mortal... ever made?" "Has any mortal... ever made them?" "There is someone, before whom... man is helpless" "There is someone, before whom... man is helpless" "I can´t help you." "You must help yourself" "How, Sister?" "Biren and Nakul both have told me that Maya is calling out to me" "But they both don´t know where she is." "Maya is where the kids have been I know why Maya chose the kids for it." "Because a child has a clean... and empty heart." "Unlike adults children don´t opine" "Children only reveal what they see, what is clear, what is true" "But how am I to believe all this, Sister?" "You can´t believe it" "You can´t believe it until your heart is filled with distrust" "Maya will keep trying to meet you." "And you can never open the doors... behind which lies the answers to your questions" "What´d you do in my shoes, Sister?" "I would believe" "But are these things for real?" "I think it is. lf we have a world, why can´t souls have a world of their own?" "Was Nakul revived to deliver Maya´s message to me?" "If not Nakul, it would have been someone else lf Maya wants to meet you, the medium can be anyone, anything" "She wants me to go to her!" "What do I infer from it?" "Between Life and Death there are many steps" "Perhaps Maya stopped at one of those steps" "She is calling out to you, but you purposely ignore her calls... because you believe in not believing, my son" "Why is Maya calling me?" "I think Maya isn´t completely detached from you yet" "There must be something that was left incomplete" "What could it be?" "You will know that in good time" "Until then am I to roam about like a madman, Sister?" "Behind every search, there is madness" "After all you are searching for something too" "Not without reasons though." "There you are" "Nothing happens without reasons" "There should surely be a reason why you are going through all this" "You are standing in a bridge, Akash, right in the middle" "You have two ways to climb down" "Only you can decide which way you want to go" "What does this mean, Maya?" "What do you want to tell me?" "Are you there, Maya?" "Listen to me carefully." "We got a dead body for kidney transplant" "You must personally take care of it till I come I´ll be a little late, but I will only perform the transplant" "Come closer, Akki" "Where are you taking him?" "That man is not dead, he´s alive." "What rot?" "I´m telling the truth" "The corpse has been lying here since morning" "Wait!" "That man is alive." "I saw his heart beat" "There´s no room for any doubt, look at this" "Hurry up" "That man is alive." "I saw him breathe" "Ashok, don´t take him away please." "Move away, Akash" "Believe me Akash, he grabbed my hand, he tried to tell me something" "A corpse grabbed your hand?" "Are you insane?" "Not a corpse, Ashok!" "Maya tried to talk to me" "Carry on, guys" "Akash!" "What are you doing?" "Let me be alone with him for ten minutes, please" "Maya is trying to reach me through him" "Akash, you are out of your mind." "You are going insane" "Akash, get out of here this very moment!" "Come over here" "Akash, there´s a limit to being childish" "It was Maya´s voice. I can´t be wrong." "Please give me ten minutes" "All right, we´ll talk about it later" "Akash!" "Where are you taking him?" "Maya wants to talk to me!" "Let me go!" "Take him away!" "Let go!" "Carry on, doctor." "You can go now" "Madam has bailed you out" "Didn´t you hear?" "Get up" "C´mon" "Get this thing very clear, doctor lf you act weird again, anywhere in the vicinity of the hospital... then, either I´ll lock you up or I´ll send you to an asylum." "Dig?" "We caused you trouble because of him" "Where was the need to kick up such a fuss over a dead body?" "I hope you won´t say that the dead body was talking to you?" "No" "Through that body, Maya was talking to me I know what I´m saying." "Believe it or not..." "Maya was trying to reach me through that body" "I´m the one it´s all happening to" "The one you think is a corpse, grabbed my hand I only asked for 10 minutes to talk to him and you think I´m mad?" "Tanya, believe me..." "You can´t die for those who are dead!" "To live, you must accept that Maya is dead" "Accept it!" "She will never return l´ve been tolerating your nonsense for the last three months!" "Get a grip on yourself" "Just as you brought me to terms with life, after Vinod´s death... you need to something like that with yourself too" "Kill the things that have brought you to this state" "One last thing, Akki." "You owe me many favours, don´t you?" "Return all the favours to me." "With interest" "Break off with every thing that had anything to do with Maya" "Leave that house, this city." "Stop meeting me too" "Am I not the one most of Maya´s memories are attached with?" "At least try!" "Didn´t l try?" "I´m still trying" "That which I didn´t ever want to me... I was forced to be" "Even having lost you... I´m forced to live" "The wound time has inflicted on me... I´ve had to bear" "In the city, once again... I´ll make a small house for myself" "The way you had done up the house... I will do up this one too" "With new colours, I shall colour... the walls" "A few new dreams I will plant" "The poison of your sorrow... I am forced to drink" "Even after having lost you... I am forced to live" "The wound time has inflicted on me... I´ve had to bear" "Now do you believe what I say, Tanya?" "It´s the same sign Biren and Nakul... kept making at the hospital every now and then lt´s the same picture your best friend Maya sent to me through you" "Meaning?" "It´s obvious" "Maya´s calling me over." "To the same sign in that village she went to" "But Akash, Maya´s..." "You won´t understand me, will you?" "Because you still stand on this side of the bridge of faith" "Where I stood, some time ago" "But I have crossed the bridge" "I know, Maya´s calling me there I´m going to her" "I don´t know why, Tanya... but I feel as if I´m going to bring your friend back from there" "Over there, sir." "That´s the village in your photograph" "That sign in the photo, sir... that´s a sign you´ll find in front of every hut" "Five kilometers from here is the Chameli bridge, sir" "A van of the Red Cross fell off the cliff from there" "A few of the bodies were washed into the village by the currents... but some of them have still not been found" "I´ve got to go there" "No, sir." "We can´t go there" "There are only tribals there." "It´s very dangerous" "Take me there, Moses." "No, sir. I can´t take you there" "But I´ll ask a tribal friend of mine..." "Please take me there." "Now!" "They´ll ask for some money, sir." "That´s all right." "C´mon" "Will I get money?" "Of course" "I asked them." "They say they can´t take you into the village... it´s on the border of Burma, sir." "It´s very dangerous" "But if we pay them some money, there´s a graveyard... where they´ve buried many victims of the bus accident... maybe your wife´s body is also buried there, sir?" "Shall we go, sir?" "My heart still beats for you" "I still hear your melodious call" "My body´s still on fire... with your breath" "It still evokes excitement... in my soul" "My heart is now... laden with your memories... even separated from me... you seem so much a part of me" "The last bus is going to leave." "We´ll have to get moving" "Sir!" "Do these folks know where which body hasn´t gone?" "I don´t think so, sir" "We must leave." "The bus will leave, sir" "Have you seen her somewhere?" "They know your wife" "He says he´ll take us into the village" "The other says, they won´t take us into the village" "Moses, isn´t this the waterfall where...?" "Yes, it´s the waterfall where the bus met with an accident" "Sir!" "Where are you going?" "It´s dangerous!" "Don´t go any further..." "Now look, sir... listen to me!" "Maya isn´t wholly separated from you yet" "She´s calling you" "There was so much of light there, so much of water" "You´re out of your mind!" "You´re mad!" "You´re saved!" "Do you know...?" "You were saved by God´s grace!" "Let´s get out of here, get up!" "You know, you´ve reached the border of Burma!" "The Border Security guys will gun you down and me lf we get caught, we´ll have to do a term in prison!" "Let´s go now, please!" "She´s not dead" "She´s in that village" "Where are you going now...?" "Don´t go there, please!" "Don´t go there!" "They´ll kill you!" "My wife" "She says, your wife was here in the village to help" "The flood waters brought her back to the village" "She says, they couldn´t save your wife" "She says, they laid your wife´s soul to rest" "She says, it´s your God... it´s Lord Ganesha who saved your baby" "Maya´s here!" "See, Tanya?" "I´ve brought Maya back" "Maya´s death taught me something... she couldn´t ever teach me while she was alive" "She taught me to have faith" "Faith in love... faith in one´s intentions" "Or else, how could it have been possible... that our premature baby who was just six-months old... survived in those jungles, without any medical attention?" "I was convinced that love has the power... to bring back even the dead" "The body dies but not the man lt´s only that he transforms into a memory" "He is brought alive every moment... in every mention of his... in every word of his" "Though we try we can´t ever forget the dead" "That is why there´s never a worry of forgetting the dead" "O life of mine, you are always with me"