Khambao
a girl living in the outskirts of Gopal was um……… let’s just say not a normal
girl and why not, does our hero deserve a petty earthling as his mate? No way!
A normal silly girl child would like irrelevant things such as Barbie or
stuffed toys but Khambao being so special had special choices. She would prefer
an ape over an apple (still the doctor would remain away from her, for her
might be it was an ape a day keeps the doctor away). Anyhow moving to less
illogical contexts, she had a special liking for animals and consequently she
ended up in a zoo I mean as a guide in a zoo.
She
belonged to a middle class family of Gopal and was the second child of her
parents. Her father was an archeologist and mother, curator at the city museum.
Maybe it was this ‘historical’ background that Khambao had somehow played a
role in deciding the destiny of her’s and our hero after all its history that
Chibil is all about. As a child Khambao would go to the museum with her mother
and would carefully listen to all the
free guided tour which was offered and would enjoy all the folk-lores and
legends. It was then when she first came across the name Chibil, according to
many historical records of ancient civilizations such as Aztec, Zulu and the
Greeks, there existed a great legend who was born sometime back in three lakh
B.C. who possessed all the talents and
that he discovered and invented uncountable things, that he graces earth with
his incarnations and also that his powers had gone asleep due to some reason
which no one knew. It was during this time that Khambao had an arisen intrest
in the legend but had no idea as such that the same would come in her life
sometime in future.
So,
after college due to her keen interst in archeology and mathematics she applied
for the post of guide at the local zoo. What……!! Does everything need to be
logical, it’s about Chibil after all. So, quietly keep on reading. Having
joined the zoo as a guide Khambao made a very special friend there,`Kansi’ was
the name of the ape that she had befriended. Each day after her shift at zoo,
she and Kansi used to hang on, `obviously’ they could not hang out on branches
of tress. For hours they used to discuss astrology and anatomy. But this was
not to be for very long, for his ‘unapely’ behavior and excess violence with
fellow, Kansi was moved out of the zoo and was exiled into the forest in the
outskirts of Gopal. Khambao did not like this separation and therefore moved on
but Kansi had taken those hours seriously so much that he started to search for
her everywhere in the forest and even in the town(don’t ask me why in
forests!!...).
The
search proved to be very exhausting and long for Kansi. During this he had been
shot at seven times, beaten numerous times whenever either he got in someone’s
home, bathroom, and even bedroom looking for his Khambao. It had been four months now and poor Kansi was
starting to loose hope but as it was meant to be, he happened to be standing
just below the house where Chibil had knocked on Valentine’s morning and heard
Chibil’s proposal. Yes, finally Kansi
had found Khambao but not in the most of pleasant ways.
