Narinder Singh

Narinder Singh of the 'tie and dye'works could not see me today as he was going to Ajmer with his wife, father and two sisters. Picknic? I asked. No, family matters. What family matters? He explained to me the next day when I visited him. His sister got married two years ago. It was a good Indian wedding with all the traditions. Her husbands family is also 'Punjabi Rajasthani'. Living in Rajasthan ever since the partition, just like ours. But those people live in Ajmer. Two years after the shadi we get the message from Ajmer that the husband's family do not want her, in other words they rejected her as a part of their family. "Thats why we went to Ajmer with our family". I was still curious. "First we went to a place near Ajmer to see the holy 'babajee'- whome we believe as a spritual person. Many people go to him for the answers.Mostly he knows why one has come to visit him.Babajee can predict the future and every thing you want to know about a person, only if you believe in him truely from your heart". "We showed Babajee her(sister) photograph. He predicted that there was an death in the family, specially with the future of my sister. Her husband's family want to murder her. We all were absolutely shocked and sad and completele hurt. Our heart is still full of grievences. Even now while I am telling you this. We all drove to Ajmer to my sister's house and brought our sister back to our house in Jodhpur now. And now she is with us." "We have a combined family system in India as you know, and always help each other- like I have 4 brothers and we all live together in one house with our wives and children". "What now?". "We are going to invite our whole clan.From all over Rajasthan and some from Punjab. But not at the same time- to explain this situation to them and purify our cause and our sister of all the blames. Our clan will mediate and persuade the family of her husband. We shall keep working on it as long as it takes, until the boy(husband) comes to our house - bids excuses and takes her back to Ajmer respectfully". "Fortunately she doesn't have any children." "Raju, get some Rajasthani chai. Subhash jee, here are some nice colours. If you unfold the "tie and dye" threads, you can see the real colours inside ........