Arjun
Arjun Does he know? Doesn’t he know? This question bothered me every time my friend Ripa would talk about her son. If we went to a superb musical with our children, she would say ‘Arjun found it too kiddish!’, explaining why they left midway. Or when we met one our friend’s daughter in the mall, Ripa would say, ‘Arjun is going all google eyed at her, look at him’. And i would. But all i saw was a teenaged boy with the skeletal body of a four year old, under a large head, open drooling mouth and eyes that shone without a blink. You see Arjun had cerebral palsy and was on a wheel chair. So did he know or didn’t he know anything? The thought perturbed me immensely. Many a time Ripa would send me audios of her singing to Arjun, for Ripa had a marvelous voice, and she would twist the lyrics which she claimed made Arjun gurgle with laughter. Like here is sample- ‘Kyun naye lag rahein hain ye dharti pavan, maine pooncha toh boli pavan, Pyaar hua Arjun se....