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Birth of Meera (I)

Meera  Meera of the 21st century was not born out of a womb but out of will. She was born out of a similar fire from which emerged King Drupad's daughter, the dark complexioned, slender waisted, black eyed, Draupadi in the famous epic of Mahabharata. She too was a grown up (21 year old) when she was born but unlike Draupadi, Meera did not have long hairs. She had trimmed and round baby head when she was born. The rest of her features, body weight and even height matched Ujala's.   Although Ujala did not make love to conceive her, there was impregnation, labor pain and the final delivery. The outcome of this long termed agony was to be the oblation in the altar of the sacrificial fire from which Meera emerged.   Ujala apparently loves glorifications and exaggerations and yet she would never be dramatic to the extent of romanticizing a GenZ's existential crisis as Meera. The memories of excruciating labor pain and days filled with "Push! Push! Push!", "a little...