from the diaries of Tanvi:
That is what I felt when I got a call from him His calm-and-low-voiced "hello" gave me goosebumps. He called me from his office. I wondered what it could be! "Whats up?" I said waiting for his next words. Nothing came to my mind as to what he would say I waited like the child waiting for the las drop of honey to come out the emptied bottle. As if he read my mind, he spoke nothing for few seconds. Then he said, "Nothing I called you just like that".
I felt light at heart when I heard it. Middle of the day, stuck in a problem with my work, all I could ask him was, "Hows work?".He gave a quick answer - fine. We talked few seconds about how everything was going on. I sensed some uneasiness in his voice. He was hesitating to ask something I said, "Want to ask me something?" He murmured and said, "Well nothin much.. call me if you would like to have a chat, when ever you are free". He waited for my "OK" and disconnected the call
With a single phone call, he pushed me far away from my work, from the place I was in, from the state I was in. "Call me if you can". That's how our relation began The first time we talked, more or less happened the same way. Strangers as we were, we talked about our childhood days and I said these words before he cut the call. "Call me if you can, when you are free".
