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SONIYA
The sun had risen outside, birds were chirping, and it was an otherwise bright morning with the exception of chilly winds, with it being the month of December in Delhi. Sun rays infiltrated through windows in Puri residence, Mrs. Reena Puri was having her usual morning tea and Mr. Aakash was in the garden, catering to his plants, his second love after his wife and daughter, with the radio playing romantic Hindi retro songs in the background on full volume.
'Aakash slow down the radio!! Soniya must be sleeping; she came late from work last night.' Reena spoke to her husband.
'But beautiful, the romantic songs are necessary, or else how would the flowery plants get in the mood for pollination and produce more such beauties?' Aakash said with a wink, Reena laughed and rolled her eyes.
'Seriously Aakash you are a retired man now how can you still say such shameless things'
'There is no retirement age for romance, my love', and he pecked her on the cheeks making her blush, sometimes she awed that how, he could still make her blush even after more than three decades of marriage.
Soniya silently watched the endearing exchange between her parents and smiled to herself. The kind of bond they shared was rare these days and she long ago left hope for having a prince charming in her life, it was a longing she no longer harbored in her heart in it's place was an endless void.
'Maa, papa you both are giving a show to our neighbors 'Soniya shouted from inside and went towards the kitchen to prepare herself an adrak wali chai, her guilty pleasure and she could not not start her day without a cup of tea, she probably got addicted to it during her board exams when she used to study overnight and needed a shot of tea to stay awake.
Both her parents were surprised to see her ready this early morning,
'Good morning bachha, Reena, can you please see if there are any unicorns flying in the sky outside?"
'I was just going to see that outside, I mean it has to otherwise how come our princess woke up so early today despite working late yesterday' Reena said with a hint of amusement.
'Come on it's not like I woke up early for the first time, the last time it was just a couple of weeks if not months ago only', Soniya said hugging both of them.
Aakash and Reena both laughed at that and said 'of course ' in unison. They continued their bickering and had breakfast together, while her eyes fell upon the newspaper kept on the table, whose frontpage headlines read:
KARTAVYA, OF SWAMI STEELS AWARDED WITH THE CEO OF THE YEAR AWARD
And that was enough to sour her mood, everyone saw the ladder of success he rose up, but no one saw the tears, shattered hopes, dreams, the ruin of hundreds of lives and loss of livelihood he caused in the way. She promised those people that she would avenge on their behalf, that she would do everything in her power and beyond to give those people their share and livelihoods back.
No matter the number of sleepless nights, the early mornings and dirty battles she had to work and face to get to that point, but she would not stop, there is no way she would forget the tears of those small children when their right to education and a happy childhood was snatched from them due to the greed of people like Kartavya.
She took her handbag, bid goodbye to her parents and took off for her office.
Soniya worked as a climate activist, and after gaining sufficient experience and knowledge in her field she opened her own organization named as EcoVoice about 3 years ago and now she had a staff of over 20 people who were the nicest and the most hardworking people she met, all of them being enthusiastic towards a much more sustainable environment.
Her office was a two-story building with somewhat modernized architecture. She got out of her car and greeted the security guard who himself seemed a bit surprised to see her this early in the morning. Soniya headed straight to her cabin where Noora and Abhishek who were Eco Voice's digital strategist and social media curator along with 3 other employees were already seated.
'Good morning everyone thank you so much for coming on such short notice, I hope everyone's doing well'. All of them greeted her back and nodded.
'So, what is the special occasion boss, if you called us this early, I'm sure you've got some hot news to tell' Abhishek asked.
'Yeah, what is soo special that you could not wait for at least the sun to come up I mean I couldn't believe the timing mentioned in the message, were you drunk Soniya, is that why you butt typed six freaking A.M as the meeting time on the group' Noora said still groggy from sleep and clutching the coffee cup in her hand like a lifeline, although Soniya did not have a favorite member of team but if she would then it would definitely be Noora cause she never took any sort of bullshit from anyone and both of them shared the appreciation for good couple hours of sleep.
'Well, I am sure your sleep could wait Noora, but this cannot. As you all know I came back from Rajasthan yesterday after attending the Rajasthan's government green drive initiative, but something or rather some people caught my attention there and I ended up staying for a week more and I gathered every detail, evidence and viewpoints of the people during my stay, before any question please have look at the presentation'.
Soniya presented her findings and slowly she observed all the sleep vanishing away from their eyes and at the end of the presentation all of them had wide eyes.
'Holy freaking shit boss, this is something else' Ritwik, the team's journalist exclaimed he was joined by all the members who were equally stunned by the revelation.
'Yes, this is indeed something very big and this incident coming into light when swami steels just had such a big achievement is even more shocking, that is why Ritwik, I want you to fact check every bit of information in the presentation
'But Soniya you had collected this information from the victims themselves' Noora interjected.
'Yes, I know but still it is better to be safe than sorry later when they charge EcoVoice with defamation charges.
'I'm on it.' Ritwik left for his cubicle.
'Okay guys in the meantime let's make a plan as to how we're going to proceed further'.
It was late afternoon, and many other employees had also come. She and her team had devised the whole modus operandi to proceed and now they all waited for the final report by Ritwik. Soniya just sat to have her lunch when Ritwik came in the kitchen area and confirmed all her suspicions.
'Soniya, all the information is correct, it is indeed one of the investments of swami steels and co., we are fit to proceed.' Lunch forgotten Soniya called for an urgent team meeting, and they all got into action.
They posted the blog on the official webpage of EcoVoice and other major findings of Soniya's investigation during her visit to the village along with factual data and other transaction proofs they obtained during the course of the day along with a bunch of editorials which were forwarded to the prominent newspaper agencies by her team writer. Image proofs and interview of the village people was also posted on all their social media handles, which had over 4 million followers.
Once all the material was posted and forwarded to the relevant authorities only then did the whole team took a breath of contentment, it was late night by the time the other remaining projects were also finished when finally, Soniya dismissed the whole team some employees still remained in office as they had virtual meetings with international collaborators.
Soniya sat in her cabin, plopped her feet on the small coffee table after being on her feet almost whole day and felt a small smile forming on her face as she took in the rapidly increasing views on the published information.
She smirked and said to no one the empty cabin 'Game on Mr. Kartavya'.
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