RAHUL TO RHEA

I heard Sanjana open the door and walk in. I looked at the clock in my
iMac and it was already 7 PM. I could still hear the scooters and bikes
honking in the rush hour traffic of Bangalore. I closed up my work and
went down stairs to great her. She gave me a fake smile and said Hi. I
knew something was going on in her mind. I kissed her and asked her what
the matter was. She said that she had been assigned to an off-shore two
year long project in the United States. That sounded like good news to
me. But didn't understand why she looked all gloomy. Puzzled, I said
"This is something you longed for and the overseas opportunity would
definitely strengthen your future career prospects. I don't understand
why you haven't started celebrating yet?"

Sanjana replied "Yeah, but that is not the only news. I told mom about
this, she called me back after a while and warned me that her astrologer
said that according to my horoscope I can't travel overseas as a married
woman. If I travelled overseas something bad would happen to you, Rahul!"

Sanjana's mom is this weird little crazy woman. Her astrologer words were
like God's word for her, she never did anything without consulting him.
The alignment of stars was more important to her than common sense. This
psychopath of a woman made me do all sorts of weird things before I could
get her daughters hand for marriage. She made me walk 3000 steps barefoot
to a temple and shave my hair as an offering, then I had to be celibate
for a month and make an arduous journey through a jungle to bath in an
ancient temple pond, and the worst of them all; I had to be a beggar
outside a temple for nine days. Sanjana was so close to her mom that she
never said no to any of her eccentric ideas.

Sanjana added, according to her horoscope the planet alignments were in
such a way that she could travel overseas only after she gave birth to a
baby. The overseas assignment started in another month so a quick baby
was out of question. I asked her if there was another way out. She said