章節 63: Reaching the Hotel and Resting
Everyone disembarked from the plane via the tube that connected the plane to the International airport at New Delhi.
Soon Tania and her grandparents were at the immigration counter. They did not want to visit the Duty Free shops, as Dada ji had already purchased stuff for all of them. They were out through the Green Channel as they had nothing to declare.
It had taken them about fortyfive minutes to clear the necessary paperwork, get their passports stamped, collect their baggage and reach the gate of the airport.
Outside, they found the booking counter and booked a cab for the nearby hotel in which Dadaji had made reservations prior to their departure from Moscow.
There were a few hotels that were near the International Airport. Many tourists found it convenient to stay in any one of these hotels and take a tourist cab to do site seeing, then return to the hotel. This they found more convenient than staying in any hotel within the city.
Tania recalled that a room had been booked for Igor Uncle too who would be arriving within an hour of their reaching the hotel.
Since the hotel was nearby, they were at the reception of the hotel within 20 minutes.
Dadi ji and Nani ji heaved a sigh of relief when they reached their rooms.
In the corridor, they addressed each other, "Mira, I think you are also tired like I am. We need some rest so others please do not disturb till it is dinner time."
"What do you mean by others?"Dada ji inquired.
Dada ji and Dadi ji were in one room, Nani ji and Tania were in the adjacent one and the third one had been booked for Igor Uncle.
"The next room is your Mamu's room Tania."
"We did not take the key from the reception, but I have informed the reception that your Uncle will be arriving within an hour and that he be shown to his room," responded Dada ji upon seeing a puzzled expression on Tania's face.
"You and Nikita are sharing a room," he added.
"Today, we will all rest and tomorrow we will be doing a site seeing round of Delhi as Tania and Nikita needs to be shown certain places within Delhi."
"As a matter of fact, even Mira and I have not seen many places in Delhi."
"The day after that we will all proceed to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, the Agra Fort and some other monuments there."
"Thereafter, on the next day we will proceed to Rajasthan."
"Tania, if you also want to rest, you may go to your room, otherwise you may come to our room. Let these beautiful ladies have their seista."
"No Dada ji ! I am fine, I don't need rest."
"Nikita lets go to your room," retorted Mira.
"These two want to discuss things so they want us out of they way. Even otherwise we need our beauty sleep." Nikita responded with a twinkle in her eyes.
Nikita was really enjoying herself. She had found a friend in Mira and they got along awesomely.
"First let me change into a comfortable Indian suit then I will come to your room, in the meantime you unpack your things." Saying this Mira went into her room and started unpacking and placing some of the clothes in the almirah provided.
"Don't unpack all the clothes, just unpack those that we need for the next two days. After that we proceed to Rajasthan," said Dada ji.
"Yes, I have done that only and now finished."
"Don't unpack any of my things, I will do that myself," Dada ji responded.
"I will have finished my unpacking and change into comfortable wear with 10 minutes."
While talking Dada ji had unpacked whatever he needed for today and tomorrow as well as for the night. He had unpacked his and his wife's toothbrushes which he placed in the bathroom and changed his clothes there.
He came out calling his wife.
"Mira, you were to change and go to Nikita's room, what happened?"
"Already changed, and I am sending Tania." Saying this Dadi ji exited the room and knocked at the door of Nikita. Nikita opened the door. Nikita and Tania had changed into comfortable clothes.
"Tania your Dada ji is waiting."
"We ladies are going to catch up on our beauty sleep. Please wake us up after one hour, when your Mamu comes."
Tania was ushered out of the room, by both her grandmothers.
Tania just wondered, her Dadi ji and Nani ji were now the best of friends. She was indeed very lucky to find so much love towards her from both sides of parents.
Her father perhaps knew such a day would come. That is why he had left her a coded message in various pages of her favourite comic book. which was in the library.
She recalled that while her Dada ji and her uncle Igor were playing chess, she had found her old comic book on a shelf and had wondered what it was doing there.
She had picked up the comic book and taken it to the sofa to curl up and read again. She found that her father had encircled some words on each page of the comic.
She had noted down the encircled words on a piece of paper and had left the room after stuffing that piece of paper in the cover of her mobile.
She had handed the piece of paper to her Dada ji, who had tears in his eyes after he had read what was written on it. The same was the case with her Dadi ji.
The words read as follows:-
"Tania, Beta do not trust your Igor Uncle. He is a notorious character and is after our property. He visited your mother when you were to be born and threatened your mother by calling her and her unborn child names. He threatened to kill everyone in our family. Your mother never told me. He visited me a few days ago and threatened me too. He seems to have a grudge as to why your mother had married a person from another religion, another country and another culture. Try to contact your paternal grandfather, your Dada ji, who will help you."
Tania reached the door and knocked. Let Dada ji opened the door and let her in pointing to her Dadi ji's bed to sit there in a relaxed way.
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