Did Rakhi decide what she was to study, asked my husband (Rakhi is my granddaughter).

No, not yet, she is still weighing all the options available to her, I said. What would you like her to pursue, a career in medicine, Information Technology or become an entrepreneur, I asked him.

Well, I feel someone with her temperament should be on their own , perhaps acquire a basic degree with an MBA , he said. But what's the use of what I think because Rakhi is not the type to listen to anyone excepting her friends perhaps, he lamented.

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What do you think would be an ideal career for her, he asked me in turn.

Well, I also think she is too independent, fit more to be an employer rather than an employee working for someone, I observed.

I wonder whom she has taken after, certainly not her parents because Smitha was not like this when she was young. Even Sanjay is such a soft spoken and a mild mannered person, he said.

Probably its the environment, that's the only reason I can think of, I said.

Of late I noticed her watching a particular TV serial with rapt attention and also seriously reading the newspapers which she never did before, I said.

That surprises me too, said my husband. Anyway, coming back to the point, you would be shocked if I tell you what I I overheard Rakhi saying to her friend on phone, he said.

What did she say, I asked full of anxiety.

She said there are only two ways of hogging the headlines in the media, either one should be a terrorist or a celebrity, no matter if he is in prison or out of it on bail.

Unfortunately, that's a fact we can't deny, I said.

But wait, I haven't finished. Rakhi was telling her she found a model at last whom she wished to emulate - the scheming young hot-headed teenager who wants to become an IPS officer just to wreak vengeance for what her IPS grandmother has done to her father who she thinks is innocent.

So, we are going to have a terrorist in the family who will eventually become a celebrity and hog the headlines, all for the wrong reasons, I sighed.

I am beginning to wonder who is going to be her first target, you or me, said my husband appearing as cool as a cucumber.

I hope you are joking, I said but there was some other thought running inside my mind.