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కొంతమంది దంపతుల సంసార యాత్ర సాఫీగా సాగిపోతుంది. చిన్నచిన్న కలతలు వచ్చినా ఇద్దరిలో సర్దుకుపోయే గుణం ఉండటమే దీనికి కారణం. ఇంకొంతమంది భార్యాభర్తలు మాత్రం అయ్యిందానికి కానిదానికి గొడవపడుతుంటారు. అహంభావం మూలంగా ఏ విషయంలోనూ ఏకీభవించలేరు. అలాంటి ఓ జంట గురించి నళిని, సుధ మాట్లాడుకుంటున్నారు. ఇంగ్లిష్‌లో ‘కన్ను’ నేపథ్యంలో వచ్చే నుడికారంతో వీరి సంభాషణ ఆసక్తికరంగా సాగుతుంది.
Nalini: What did the mother say?
Sudha: The old lady said, Someone has put an evil eye on you, beti.
Nalini: Seema doesn’t look happy nowadays. Have you also noticed it?
Sudha: Anybody can see it with half an eye.
Nalini: What do you mean?
Sudha: It’s not difficult to know that she’s not happy.
Nalini: Is anything the matter?
Sudha: We often see them bickering – she and her husband.
Nalini: Over what?
Sudha: Over something or the other. Literally over anything and everything.
Nalini: Don’t they try to understand each other?
Sudha: No. They don’t see eye to eye about anything.
Nalini: Like what?
Sudha: About their pleasure trip, their children’s education, and almost every other issue or matter.
Nalini: It’s quite natural with every wife and husband, isn’t it?
Sudha: No. There’s more than meets the eye in Seema’s case.
Nalini: I don’t get you.
Sudha: With them, it’s not simply differences in preference or priority or point of view. They have the ego problem.
Nalini: Means?
Sudha: They’re not flexible in their opinions. They’re rigid in having their say.
Nalini: Do you know of any such instance in their life?
Sudha: They were planning to buy a house. Last Sunday they had been to see one.
Nalini: A flat in an apartment?
Sudha: No, a villa.
Nalini: Nice.
Sudha: Seema said it was very beautiful and they should buy it. Her husband said it was an eyesore to him.
Nalini: Means?
Sudha: It didn’t appeal to his eye. To him, it did not seem beautiful at all.
Nalini: Seema must have been disappointed.
Sudha: Disappointed? She couldn’t bear the rebuttal.
Nalini: What did she do?
Sudha: She cried. She cried the whole night. She cried her eyes out!
Nalini: Then?
Sudha: She shared her heartbreak with her mother. She told her mother nothing was going right for her.
Nalini: What did the mother say?
Sudha: The old lady said, ‘Someone has put an evil eye on you, beti.’
Nalini: Why did the husband not like the villa?
Sudha: Not that he disliked it. He was scared of the prohibitive cost. He was prepared for just a second-hand 2BHK.
Nalini: Did he tell his wife so?
Sudha: He made up his mind to discuss with her eyeball to eyeball.
Nalini: Pardon?
Sudha: He decided to talk to her frankly and clearly.
Nalini: Sudha, you’re an eye specialist!
Sudha: Thank you for your witty compliment.
Phani: It’s reddish. Let’s buy it.
Basha: Reddish? Which one?
Phani: Next to the potato.
Basha: It’s ivory.
Phani: Do they sell ivory at a vegetable market?
Basha: No, they don’t. It’s a rare commodity.
Phani: Don’t confuse. Next to the potato is reddish.
Basha: Pal, it’s not reddish. It’s radish.
– సూర్యారావు ఎం.వి వివేకానంద ఇన్‌స్టిట్యూట్‌ ఆఫ్‌ లాంగ్వేజెస్‌, రామకృష్ణ మఠం.
