Prodigy of Errors
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I was on my regular weekend schedule that Saturday afternoon. As much as I had wanted to slip out unnoticed, it wasn’t to be. “Where’re you off to, Nitya?” I heard my husband’s languid drawl as he stirred in his afternoon nap. My hand stopped for a brief moment before I resumed combing my long tangled hair. I kept tugging at them using deliberate strokes with a metal brush, brutally, mercilessly. “What the hell!!!” I muttered within my mouth, exasperated at the whole effort. Then, hurriedly rolled up the tangled mass and clasped it with a plain black hair clip, avoiding even the slightest sound that I could. Yet, I heard his voice again. “Aren’t we going to the club this evening?” I fumbled desperately for a legitimate reply as I picked up my bag, preparing to leave. “I have an appointment at the dentist’s. Will be back soon.” I said it all in a gasp of breath. I always panic when I have to lie. But I couldn’t afford to miss this chance. My only chance!
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When most of us are busy perfecting our lives, Nitya is already an Einstein in her own forte. Ever since her early childhood, Nitya has grown up believing that she is the chosen one, with some manufacturing defect. Strangely enough, she refuses to regret it; in fact she is obsessed with it. However, hounded by slanderous perfectionists from all sides, she finds herself trapped under perpetual pressure, to perform. The more she strives for excellence, the greater blunders she commits. In her relentless pursuits of perfection, she faces some of the most uproarious and stupefying predicaments that have turned her life around. Spanning over five decades, right from the Hippie era of the seventies, to the turn of the dynamic millennium, her story is an insightful reminiscence of her mysterious past, laden with trapped memories that have long haunted her. What shadows does her past hide and what will become of her growing obsession? Read only if you really want to know!