05-06-2020, 09:42 PM
Ajay and his wife visited their native place to attend a ceremony. It was a remote village in Thiruvannamalai district. All the relatives from his wife’s side knew that they had recently became rich and had settled in life. Leelavati came from an extremely poor background and she felt slightly guilty at her luck. They were visited by a long distance relative of Leelavati who had also came for the ceremony.
They grieved to Leelavati about their ill luck and how the lack of rainfall had brought them to their ruin. They also seemed to have 5 kids. After two days, they came back to Leelavati with a proposal. Among all their kids only one girl had decent education and they wanted her to pursue further studies and they needed Ajay’s help for it. The girl’s name was Sushma, she was 18 years old and had just completed her 12th standard. She had taken commerce group and her marks weren’t even that good, she had merely passed.
He explained this to their parents that she would never find a good college for that mark and it would be a waste of money, he told them she could take a correspondence course for B.Com from her home. They insisted that she may not have much opportunities in their village and that living in the city might help her instead. Ajay picked up that they wanted his family to take care of their daughter but he didn’t want his privacy disturbed by another kid in his home. But his wife was moved by their humble request and that she found the home empty without her own kids. She pleaded,
“Ajay, Sushma ko apnse sath Gorakhpur le chalte hai. Wo ghar ka saara kaam ache se sambhal legi aur mujhe bhi thodi madad mil jayegi.”
(“It might be good to have her at our home. She does the domestic chores well it seems. I might be able to take a break from doing all the tasks.”)
Ajay agreed reluctantly. The relatives introduced their daughter Sushma to Ajay and his wife. She was fair skinned, thin girl about 5’7”. She was dressed neatly in salwar and kameez. She wasn’t particularly attractive but had fair complexion.
They grieved to Leelavati about their ill luck and how the lack of rainfall had brought them to their ruin. They also seemed to have 5 kids. After two days, they came back to Leelavati with a proposal. Among all their kids only one girl had decent education and they wanted her to pursue further studies and they needed Ajay’s help for it. The girl’s name was Sushma, she was 18 years old and had just completed her 12th standard. She had taken commerce group and her marks weren’t even that good, she had merely passed.
He explained this to their parents that she would never find a good college for that mark and it would be a waste of money, he told them she could take a correspondence course for B.Com from her home. They insisted that she may not have much opportunities in their village and that living in the city might help her instead. Ajay picked up that they wanted his family to take care of their daughter but he didn’t want his privacy disturbed by another kid in his home. But his wife was moved by their humble request and that she found the home empty without her own kids. She pleaded,
“Ajay, Sushma ko apnse sath Gorakhpur le chalte hai. Wo ghar ka saara kaam ache se sambhal legi aur mujhe bhi thodi madad mil jayegi.”
(“It might be good to have her at our home. She does the domestic chores well it seems. I might be able to take a break from doing all the tasks.”)
Ajay agreed reluctantly. The relatives introduced their daughter Sushma to Ajay and his wife. She was fair skinned, thin girl about 5’7”. She was dressed neatly in salwar and kameez. She wasn’t particularly attractive but had fair complexion.