Chapter 27: Black, Part 1
Kavita woke up with a smile on her face. The dream was still fresh in her mind. She had been in her childhood home with her mother. Her mother fussed over Kavita. Made her kheer, took her to a circus, and bought her clothes. Then her mother told her to go back to Tania and Pari. She was in a bus going to Delhi to meet them, but it broke down and she was back with her mother again.
She remembered a line of Janos Arany.
'In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.'
It was nice to see her mother in the dream.
After her mother's death, for some time she had dreamt of her almost every day. The dreams gradually declined and then stopped altogether. She felt a little guilty, as if ceasing to dream of her was the same as ceasing to remember her. She wanted to dream of her. She tried many things looking at her picture, thinking of an anecdote, reading her letters, but nothing helped. She realized then that you can't will your dreams.