before i hibernate for sometime, let me make use of this free time in hand to thank you readers of this thread.

pjna,
thanks for your continuous support and encouragement. don't know if i would be able to write more often though. unless of course san bro wants to hire me as a part-time employee with good compensation HAHAHA...but it's been a pleasure interacting with enthusiastic readers like you :)

parbatya,
not sure how much justice I was able to give to the characters but i would be glad if readers can relate to some of them, in parts, in some way or the other. thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. :)

occult,
HAHA....that's a good guess but i am not like any of the characters in the story. and no, you would not want to meet me in real. i may be too grotesque for your taste hahaha...jk..holler anytime and i will show up wagging my rear extension

sndi,
how have you been? i was feeling a bit not-so-good a while back but now i am as good as i can get :P

camo bro,
thanks for reading my long one HAHAHA...i realize that i can get longer if need be HAHAHA...
jokes apart, i am thankful to you for your remarks and encouragement. thanks for reading :)

nepwanted,
thank you sir! i am glad you liked it.

amber,
i am yet to decode the beginning ellipsis....but thanks for the rest of the comment. coming from an accomplished writer like you is quite a recognition for this very ordinary jotter.  i am not sure how 'non-mainstream' my writings are, but i always try my best not to get influenced by others' work and give my own dimension to my write-ups. i am glad that you agree with it partly :P.

as for biological making of the characters is concerned, i think it's gonna take nine months at least just for their construction HAHAHAHA.. but jokes aside, i see where you are coming from. tara one thing, it's not easy (for me) to write a short, few pages story on some 8 different characters (4 being major) and when i write, brevity tends to get compromised as there definitely would be more than one plot within a plot with that many characters. what's more, time is of the essence--both for readers and the writer unless you, as a writer, is seriously into it. i seriously think, i can extend this plot to pages (which it already is to some extent :P) to give more 'biological' life and feel to all the characters but that's not viable. terseness is something i realize is important for readers of forums like sajha. people won't find time and interest to read long reads.,,oh well, unless it's from Rushdie or amber :P.

thanks for your encouragement though and yeah i wrote this for myself more than anyone,,,so that makes me the most selfish person (doggie) in my eyes :P :D

lutii,
thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule to read this lootebharat hahaha...loote's story is simply incomplete without lutii's comment hahaha...thanks for making it complete, ma'am! :P


thanks to all silent readers as well (i know there ain't many tara pani HAHAHA)