The year was 1977. A healthy baby girl
was born in a brahmin family in the outskirts of calcutta. Fondly the name given was Rohini. Dusky complexion, lean and medium built and when she smiles it seems the horse is neighing. She had a beautiful long hair unlike today’s youth with wide big eyes with a perfect eye brows. The childhood days was naughty and spent mostly in Deoghar studying and playing with boys in games like kabbadi, hide and sick, climbing up the trees and sheeting the top were few of the funs muzzled with happiness. Slipping into someone's garden and plucking the mangoes was considered as a crime and the garden owner used to complain her mother for which she used to be bashed for her childhood pranks. Father was strict, disciplined and soft spoken and cares for her daughter very much and advised his wife not to rebuke unnecessarily too much considering the acts as a child's play. She was more a nature lover
than staying inside homes. She used to watch her grandma cooking and got pampered with delicacies while her mother forbid her on certain foods during growing times. She derive pleasure out of such non adhering to mothers command. Rohini has a God's gift of a natural singing voice. She used to muse people around her by her singing talent and her school teachers complimented her parents for such a natural gift. Parents always advised her daughter to hone the skills of her singing and admitted her to a music maestro to better her classical skills.
After 9 years of aloneness, Rohini got her small sister
for whom she developed a great affection and relatives, well wishers around started adoring the new comer and her presence continued to be less felt in the family circle gradually. Rohini seems dejected and learned to accept the loneliness and battle it out by herself by involving her in studies or otherwise but she never turned her back to her sweet companion. The days of youth started and she enrolled herself in Calcutta school after her father got transferred to Calcutta. She passed out merrily with flying colors in her matriculation year. Her dad present her with a cute watch which she still adorns in her wrist in todays date as well. She then got admitted herself to a prestigious college of Gokhale memorial in South Calcutta and successfully got graduated from the college. By the time she came out of the college, she used to earn her pocket expenses by giving tuitions and caring her little sister with occassional gifts followed by study books. She loves her sister like a mother loves her daughter. Gradually the girl's days in her own mother's house become numbered as her father started searching for a potential bride.
Young energetic robust Rohini with full of life rejected her father's choice of bride and rest upon her own choice of first love of her life whom she met on a locality Durga puja function where the boy admires her for her singing talent and started dating gradually which eventually turned into nuptial knots much to her father's chagrin.
The new chapter begun for Rohini in her in laws house. Strict instruction on wearing dresses was administered by her mother in law which Rohini abided by and her husband kunal sadly turned out to be a violent alchoholic and used to physically assault her almost every night. She used to weep and felt helpless like sky has fallen on her. Her dreams of a peaceful happy home shattered before her eyes as her plea for resistance on alchoholic behaviour was turned down. Thereafter for two and a half years of cruelty on her body and soul left her to be hospitalised which eventually turned into mutual divorce. She came back home like a bruised soldier and continued to fight her life all alone. Meanwhile, Rohini lost her father who was suffering from cancer in a very early age and left family bereaved with minimal bank balance. Rohini's mother lost the shadow of a big tree and struggle to meet the ends thread. She struggles to get her husband's banking job eventually after much follow ups of her husband's colleague who actually helped her to get the banking job and restore the family life. Rohini's little sister who was studying at that time and was in her youth used to tease her own elder sister on transistor or television programme sharing. Her mother sternly instructs her elder daughter to contribute in order to stay at home. Helpless, rejected from life, pain in her heart Rohini decides to migrate to Delhi for job.
In Delhi, Rohini met her most adorable friend cum colleague Jhorna
The second chapter in her conjugal life started and was abruptly came to a halt when it was found that Rohini's second husband Gourmohan and her in laws was in pursuit of money from Rohini and her mother as much as possible. Rohini was strictly ordered by her father in law to share her entire salary if she has to continue in her in laws house. Much to Rohini's chagrin and astonishment, she decided after 4 years of mental torture to quit and live life alone as she has accepted her fate on broken marriages. As ill luck would have it, Rohini lost her mother before she decided to call off her teasing marriage. Rohini's sister Rebecca who is married now left no stone unturned to surprise her elder sister with the sad demise of her mother's left over money on equal sharing.
Unleashed with the realities of sisterhood and married life, Rohini now decided to stay alone in her paternal house and manages life all by herself in peace and awaiting divorce from Gourmohan. God never closes all doors in ones life and today Rohini got her love of Delhi days and waiting to be together once freed from the clutches of Gourmohan. Rohini now breathes happily, smiles charmingly and cooks grandly like her grandma and surprise Charan,
her love of Delhi with delicacies during every weekends. Life flows in a stream and ends with a dream. God bless rohini....
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