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too must be enjoying the touch of a male, quite similar to the property of magnetism, opposite poles attracting each other.
Vibhu was silent all the time immersed in pleasure of female touch on both sides. Shree wanted to know more about Priya as she had offered a job to her in their project at Jhadol. She gently touched Vibhu's shoulder and said, "You enjoy the moonlit beauty of nature here. We are going to Priya's room. Please call me when you feel like retiring to bed."
Shree and Priya both sat down on the bed, relaxed and comfortable. Shree initiated the dialogue and said, "We are friends now and will be working together after you finish your U.G.C. assignment. We shall know about each other. There is nothing special about my life. It is a common story of girls in poor Jain families. I was forced to be a nun because my parents could not meet the dowry demands of the parents of the boy with whom I was betrothed. It is always proclaimed that we voluntarily get initiated as nuns because of our own attitude of detachment towards mundane life of household. But it is not so. I did not know what detachment meant. There as a nun, we are indoctrinated and conditioned to despise life in household and all sorts of sensual pleasures. We live a strict and regimented life of a recluse. My brother Deepak and bhabi Deepti freed me from that cage and got me married to Vibhu. We are now trying to free our parents and others by exposing the hollowness of all types of claims of monks, their futility, redundancy and irrelevance for the society. They are useless parasites. You have been a student of Delhi University and must have experienced colourful life."
Priya, "I pity your plight as a nun. I agree with your views
about monkhood. You are right that life in Delhi, a cosmopolitan city, almost a miniature India with its multiple hues from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to Bengal, is very colourful and worth experiencing. In Delhi one can see India of the seventeenth to that of the twenty-first century, from bullock carts to the metro, from dilapidated old havelis and jhuggi-jhomparies in slums to most modern bungalows in posh colonies, from narrow lanes to broad world class highways, from puppet shows to 3-D picture halls, from small tea stalls to spacious malls and all that India is. Life style in Delhi University is very liberal and almost westernised. Boys and girls are in latest design branded clothing and smoking, drinking even by girls is not a taboo. The traditional difference in boys and girls is disappearing and it is difficult to distinguish between a boy and a girl from a distance. I lived in a girls' hostel and there was great attitudinal change within a short period, not only boys but girls also demanding more freedom to mix and interact, to be allowed in each other's hostels till late in night even whole night. You must have heard from your brother and husband that any girl who does not have a boy friend and a boy without a girl friend are considered backward and looked down upon."
Shree, "Did you also have a boy friend? Please also tell me to what extent your relationship progressed? I do not see any objection in having a boy friend if it is out of true love and eventual marriage but I do not approve premarital sex."
Priya, "I did have a boy friend but I withdrew on advice of my senior before I could have been trapped in the web of false promise of marriage which usually happens with most of the girls as boys are by and large not interested in marriage and just want sexual relationship to satisfy their lust and girls
