PART I
(STRUGGLE)
He was running hard, hard as he could. Sweating as if he had
a shower, his clothes stuck to his body, eyes were red and wet. Sanjay reached
with this posture to a hospital where his father Shantaram was admitted.
Shantaram had a mild heart attack. The reason behind it was very clear that he
had took too much pressure of his job. Soon the company was going to close and
the future of his kids was on stake. Shobha’s marriage was in front and Sanjay
was still studying in school.
Sanjay ran to his father and was staring at him. “BABA .”
called Sanjay out of curiosity to see whether his father is going to respond
or not. To his surprise he did, and
Shantaram opened his eyes. He was raising his hand to that Sanjay responded quickly
and caught his hand. “Sorry, I did not informed you’ll while leaving.” said
Shantaram to his son. Sanjay nodded with his eyes fully wet and was controlling
his emotions. “ Where were you all these days?” asked Sanjay. Shantaram was
saying something but couldn’t be heard as he was not having strength to talk
much. Soon his colleague entered and kept his hand on Sanjay’s shoulder, Sanjay
asked “Do you know where he had been?” “We all had been to Delhi for strike.”
Replied Mohan a tall man with wide shoulders and a beard and fair complexion
with his arms full of nerves and well built. “What!!!!! Delhi? Are you joking?
I mean seriously, you all had been to Delhi for strike? Are you all insane?”
shouted Sanjay. He totally lost his patience after hearing that his father had
been to Delhi without telling anyone for a strike. Soon he came back to normal
and apologized for getting angry on him. He sat down on a chair beside his
father and started crying. Within no time Kaminibai and Shobha too came there
and hugged Sanjay as he was crying nonstop.
After discharge the Gaura’s went to village for a change.
There he told Kaminibai that he might go to town in some days in search of a
new job and that she along with the kids should help others in farming.
Kaminibai was not at all in a mood to leave her husband alone in this situation
but she had to agree to this. Soon Shantaram left and Kaminibai and children
were again saying bye to their whole and sole of the family. As soon as
Shantaram left for town there had been a drastic change in the behavior of
other members of the family as if they were a burden on them. Kaminibai soon
took a new job in hand in the farm of a neighboring village. Shantaram’s
brothers came to know about this and they were angry on her and told her to
leave the job and told her to do the household work instead for all. But she
refused and said that she will not do so.
One fine day when Kaminibai was working in the fields she
heard some footsteps. She stopped and saw across the fields but nothing
unusual. She again started to work. Soon after she resumed, she heard the sound
again but the intensity increased this time. She got nervous as to what was
coming but still kept her calm but before turning to resume her work she could
see the grass moving, her heart beat increased, she now started to focus on the
moving grass as to what was coming. The incoming thing was coming fast towards
her but Kaminibai was all ready to face it and so she had her knife ready for
it. Soon a dear came out from the direction running the hell out of her life,
and she left a sigh of relief and was going back to her work, but then she
thought why the hell dear was running so fast and that striked her. Her eyes
widened and she could hear the running footstep of a beast come in her
direction, as soon as she turned she realized she was late to be ready for this
beast as he had already jumped on her and used his claws to attack. Kaminibai
fell down on the grass rolled and was back on her foot, but this time she was
ready for him. It was a cheetah who was chasing its prey and found a much
bigger prey than before. Both of them were looking into each other’s eyes as to
predict what will be the next move. Moving in a circular path as if marked on
the grass this was a do or die situation for Kaminibai. Yowls could be heard
from him but this did not make her feel frightened she was focused and was
waiting for his move. He did that what she expected, cheetah did his move, he
jumped on her as if it was his own meat
territory but Kaminibai was all ready for this as she went down on her knees
bent herself down from the back in the direction of his jump and inserted her
knife accurately into his chest. Stream of blood popped out from his body that
splashed on her face as soon as she penetrated him. Soon both of them were on
the opposite side with Kaminibai on her legs but cheetah lying down in his pool
of blood. She turned towards him and started to walk. She then kept one of her
leg on him turned her knife to make the maximum damage, penetrated the knife
more in and then finally took her knife out of his body and screamed the hell
out of her body as she had won the battle. Grabbing by his legs, she took this
dead cheetah to her village so that she could offer this to their Goddess and
thank her for giving her strength to overcome this fatal situation. With her
saree all wet with her sweat and face covered in blood, everyone was shocked to
see Kaminibai. As soon she dropped the cheetah in front of the temple, people
started to applaud her and screaming in excitement.
Gaura’s came out of their house to see what was happening.
Sanjay and Shobha too came out running, as soon as they saw their mother
covered in blood they ran towards her and hugged her. They asked whether she is
ok and she just nodded yes. Sanjay and Shobha both took her to their house and
soon Shobha kept water on heat for Kaminibai to wash herself. Pindrop silence
was there in the house as if they were mourning. Breathes could be heard.
Kaminibai started thinking while having a bath that this is it, she is not
going to wait here anymore and that she needs her husband. As soon as she came
out getting freshed she said, “ We are leaving by tomorrow.” Sanjay and Shobha
gave a shocking look, as to how could they go without letting dad know about
this. He was going to talk but Kaminibai signaled him to be quiet with an angry
look. Elder brother-in-law(BIL) said, “ No, you will be here till Shantaram
comes. We don’t want any issues over this, you are our responsibility till your
husband is here and we would be going against all the odd to keep you safe,
against you as well if needed.” Kaminibai gave an angry look and said, “ This
is not fair.” Hearing this the younger BIL came out of nowhere and slapped
Kaminibai in front of everyone and said, “ We are not asking you, its an order.”
This was the worst he could do to make Sanjay angry enough that he went near
him and started to beat the shit out of his uncle. Everyone was trying to stop
Sanjay but they did not succeed, he kept on hitting him as if it was the fight
for survival. Uncle started to run away but Sanjay managed to stop him in the
center of the village and he was hammering his own uncle in front of everyone with
the series of abusive words. No one had the guts to stop Sanjay such was his anger.
Finally Kaminibai came out and ordered Sanjay to stop with a stern voice to which
Sanjay responded. He gave a bad look to his uncle and said, “ Never ever mess
with my family” spat on his face and went inside his house with anger.
The next morning Kaminibai, Shobha and Sanjay left the
village all on their own for an adventurous journey, adventurous because they
did not know the road to their city. But knew their destination, clear of the
vision they started on their journey as soon as the first sunray hitting their
part of the land wasting no time so that they could cover the maximum in a day.
To be Continued…
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