Kesari 2 - Kesari, #2

The quest for seeking truth and peace continues in the second chapter of Kesari. But this time, the dark room inside the head is brimming with fear and pain. The fight is more personal. This leg of journey holds the collar of the ghost and shows it a threatening finger.

The magician tarot card reader shares her bewitching experiences and golden wisdom to cool the hot sea of emotions. Her profound understanding of human flaws and strengths makes her a wise sage. She continues teaching the narrator the wise art of reading a story between the lines. World looks like a straight road when we are growing up. We feel the void inside us, when we are done with ticking the checkboxes of worldly expectations. We figure out that nobody is immune from pain when we lose something important. Some come face to face with their demons in their memories, some in their present vocations and some others in their future plans.

The fourth visit to Shree Ram Bhakt Tarot reader office leads the narrator to a dark forest. She understands with the help of the old lady that forests are actually time warps that exist in reality. The old lady helps her shake hands with someone whose life collided with a truck and died one very humid morning. She was left alone in a house full of painful memories and dust. She was quiet. It was more than sadness. Behind the veil of mourning an unspeakable loss, she carried with her a secret that she couldn't share with anyone else.

The fifth visit wanders inside an attic where a lonely and scared girl reads the personal diary of a 'dead' person and screams in agony. It is a tale seething with quiet sorrow. The process of experiencing the story is an arduous passage through a cobweb of tangled emotions. Humiliation, hurt and helplessness hold the hands of love to open a window nailed from years.

Kesari 2 bares it's soul fearlessly. Every emotion is out in the open. Our minds are full of dark valleys and moors of madness. Ghosts of pain and grief live there. Demons of hatred and resentment thrive there. Dark forests are a reality. Quiet attics are a part of every home. Kesari 2 walks inside these forbidden spaces and confronts the darkness. Fear nails the windows and makes sure they are jammed with dust. It's only hope and dreams that can break the fences and find a way out.

Kesari 2 won't rest until it finds a way towards light.