She Can Do Anything
Sarah's grandfather, Mr. Ramchandra Deshpande was a General in the Indian Army. His younger brother, Lakshman who lived in Pune, was taking care of their family business. They had a huge manufacturing factory of electric appliances in a suburban area of Pune.
After retirement, he went to help his younger brother in the village. Now at present, his brother's children were handling the business successfully and both old men were leading a peaceful farmer's life by fishing, raising trees, watering and maintaining a huge farm of vegetables, and meeting old friends. But as a big shareholder of the company, Mr. Ramchandra had all the rights regarding taking big decisions about business matters.
He was a former student of 'Danchen University of Arts and Skills' and Siyao Danchen was his junior back then. They were best friends and Mr. Deshpande was the one who introduced the outside world to every Kontumbian through Radio and TV.
He had provided every electrical appliance and modern machine to Kontumba in exchange for rare herbal medicines in tablet forms, only available in kontumba's mountains for Indian soldiers. The Indian Army and President of Kontumba had a legal agreement in private. The Kontumbians had refused to share the secret recipe and procedure of medicine-making.
Later, Mr. Deshpande sent his first adopted grandson, Rudra to Danchen University to learn Martial arts. After graduation, he joined the Indian Army, which was his childhood dream.
The potential and ability he saw in Rudra were absent in his other grandchildren including Vikram, who chose to join the police academy to pursue his dreams.
Sarah was close to her grandpa. Although he knew she was the shadow of Rudra, he did not wish to send her to Kontumba, the land of difficulties, struggle, and hardships.
But she was Sarah. When she heard Rudra and her Grandpa talking about Danchen University, she became curious and spied on them for a month. One day when her grandpa got drunk and slept like a dead pig, she dared to enter his study and got her hand on his College Certificates and other documents such as legal contracts of selling products to Kontumba and several old documents of correspondence between him and the Grandmaster.
That was the time when she learned that Rudra was sent to Kontumba for his further education and not to America!
Just when she was thinking about planning to elope from home and join the University, she realized her grandpa was awoken from his drunken stupor and staring at her. He was not enraged but gave her punishment of standing under the harsh sun for one day.
She tried to convince him to let her go to Kontumba but he never listened and acted as if he was dumb and deaf. She tried to threaten him with ending her life but the old man didn't budge for an inch.
She asked for help from Anant, Rudra, and Vikram respectively but they pretended to be deaf in fear of the old man going berserk if they disobeyed him.
After seeing that nobody's going to help her, she finally eloped from the house! The Deshpande family frantically searched for their little princess for a month.
One day, a simple email dropped at the old man's computer like a bomb shaking the house to the core. The message was from the Kontumbian embassy-
'I have taken admission here. The place is quite good. I haven't told them about my family background. They think I am an orphan. I don't want special treatment here. Don't worry about me. I will work and study hard. Love you, Gramps!'
Nobody knew how did she get there and who helped her. The four men kept the information hidden and declared that Sarah is in America too, learning literature!
The old man cried like a two-year-old child, alone in his bedroom, which was next to Sarah. He slept in her room that night and the next morning, Mr. Deshpande left Mumbai and went to his village.
He was angry and upset towards his beloved granddaughter until the day she arrived home after three years. But the anger vanished in thin air when he saw her.
Sarah's temperament and aura had changed drastically. He felt proud when he saw her certificate of performance, which was better than Rudra!
The old man was overwhelmed with a plethora of emotions. He didn't expect that Sarah was now able to serve in not only the Indian Army but in the Navy and Air Force as well. It was merely his conjecture. The proper training was enough to take her to the position of Colonel in the Army and Captain in Navy and group Captain in Air Force.
On top of that, she had learned medicine-dark skills! It was the icing on the cake! She could become a doctor if she wanted to.
The girl really surprised him when he learned that she can even fly a fighter jet and run a huge ship. The old man laughed like a madman after he confirmed from his juniors serving in Defence that Sarah had learned these skills in mere twenty days!
He was further dumbfounded when he found out that Sarah had connections in the Navy. The boy in their neighboring villa was head of the Department of Navy's fighter jets! She indeed hit two birds with one stone.
They even thought she has an affair with that boy in secret. The old man who was gloating on her achievements almost puked blood when he heard Sarah's decision :
"I wanted to learn everything and show everyone I can do anything. Now I have done everything, I want to complete my novel series!"
The old man again packed up his belongings and went back to the village in anger. Anant, Rudra, and Leela supported Sarah's decision happily.
What her family didn't know was her several tours to the Capital were actually missions given by Grandmaster and her Mentors at Danchen University!
When she thought her grandfather won't force her anymore to join Defence services so she could avoid dangerous missions from Kontumba, she received three letters from three headquarters of Defence. Each letter had the same offer- to be their consultant in emergencies if she doesn't want to be a soldier.
It didn't take her long to recognize who was playing his cards in the background. His one call from the village was able to change the whole system upside down.
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