Shikhar Prapti / શિખર પ્રાપ્તિ

The first rays of the sun fall on a girl's face, and someone paints a wonderful picture of the same girl on a canvas. Just that dream… just that and I woke up. Gradually that early morning dream faded away and realization started to grow inside me. All those longings sometimes got fulfilled and this story happened accordingly.As for the peak, I met a lieutenant during my Sarpas trek. His personality, eloquence, love of painting all this touched me unconsciously. When thinking of a male character with Pratti, I could not imagine anyone but Lt. Shekhar and one name came to mind and stuck, Shikhar Prapti.As I started thinking more about Shikhar Prapti, Sameer, Dwija, Saruman, Hukm Singh, all started beating around me. He became a part of my story by coming and talking to me every night. All these characters I have always seen somewhere, known, maybe even longed for something from them, and now, through pen, I have been able to live in them, so I consider myself really lucky. This story, written every day at night, has been constantly shining on the paper and on my inner writer.