Prabha: Goodbye
August 1980
All this time in Delhi, she’d been wanting to talk to Mallika and Gauri about Shantanu. But she hadn’t known how to bring it up without them having a fit. It wasn’t as if she could say right off, ‘You know, I’m sleeping with this boy in my class, and I really, really like him, but I don’t know if I want to marry him, and I’m not sure if I love him.’ She, like Mallika and Gauri, had always equated s*x with love, till she met Shantanu and tumbled happily into his bed. She had postponed telling them, and now, there was no time with Mallika leaving for America in two days. She had wanted to talk to them about her confusion. Randhir’s story about two halves looking for each other in order to become whole didn’t seem to be it. Would Gauri know? After all, Gauri love
