ROOTS
family story
Written by Jivan
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Jivan Lal
Synopsis.
A middle class parent brings up their only daughter with lots of love and affection, only to find their dreams shattered at the end. Their only daughter chooses to live with her girlfriend as a living partner! How her aged parents cope up with their tragedy forms the rest of the story.
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I had gone for my usual evening walk. Our daughter Anu had flown from New Delhi for her official work at the Chennai branch. After her office hours, she came to our home in the evening. After serving coffee my wife spoke to her about her marriage.
”Anu, it is the right time for you to get married and settle down in life.”
“Maa ... I had recently taken incharge of our new branch at New Delhi. I do not want to get married at this time of my career .I am aiming to work for our headquarters in Silicon Valley.
”Don't get married to work .You have your own life. Slow down. See whether you can get some work from your company and start something here in Chennai. I will ask your daddy to make arrangements for a loan from the bank. After marriage your hectic work schedule will not permit you to look after your children properly. Your daddy insists that we will bring up your children ,he is looking for a little companion in his retired life.”
"Maa, Our work schedule is very hectic .You do not understand work pressure and deadlines . I cannot do justice to my married life. Commitments and responsibilities ...sorry Maa...Don’t force me for marriage now...”
" Anu, don’t tell me all those lame excuses, people are getting married regardless of their work pressure. Shall I ask your daddy to look for a bride groom?”
"Maa.. please try to understand me ...”
”Are you looking for Mr. Right? Anu...There is no Mr. Right and nobody is perfect. Success of married life depends upon the mutual understanding between the husband and wife. it will not happen overnight . Married people developed it over a period of time .In married life you follow simple rules like . Do not constantly nag your husband .When he throws a tantrum just ignore him .He will come around ,pamper him when he is good .Do not have ego hassles with your husband . Do not try to reform him .Men are like grown up kids with age they will become mature, and most important thing even in married life do not encroach onto their territory. They need freedom and breathing Space.That is all they ask for you...If you follow these simple rules you can enjoy married life .Now tell me, are you in love with someone? You know your daddy is a very broad minded person .he will not be bothered about his son in laws religion, cast, north south or rich or poor. Your happiness means everything to him “
Anu was fed up with her mother’s constant nagging .She just flared up.
"Every time I come home you are pestering me to get married .Yes I am in love .I cannot live without her! . I am not getting married to any other guy …"
"What nonsense are you talking about? You are in love with HER?. With whom?”
”You know my girlfriend Nisha, we are in love with each other for the past seven years .We are living partners now"
"I thought she was your intimate friend. Look Anu, this type of physical intimacy can happen in some people in their teenage life. Do not make it an obsession. .In west gay and lesbian marriage suits their culture. It is unethical.
At the age of twenty-six you are no longer a teenage girl. Be responsible for your act...Even if you have a boyfriend and want to get married to him we would have agreed to you but this is something ridiculous. Your choice of boyfriend is fine for us, after all it is your life. . Now you are telling me you have a girlfriend as a living partner. Anu you are sick .You have lesbian tendencies in you .It is some thing very serious .All you need is a physiatrist
treatment. .I say you quit your job. You can always get a good job here. I will get you treatment... We need not tell your daddy, Everything will be fine. You know how much your daddy longs to see you get married .He insists that we bring up our grandchildren...”
”Mummy, I am serious . Since our college days we have been together for the past seven years.. If both of you are longing for grandchildren I can be the biological mother for my children but no more marriage for me…”
”Anu, you have gone mad .You may be head of your company. Now what you are into is unnatural. You are not only ruining your life but also Nisha’s life...”
After the evening walk I went back home .It was a pleasant surprise for me to see my daughter at home.
" Anu. When did you come “?
"By morning flight. I had to attend a conference at Le meridien hotel .I will be leaving for New Delhi by 9.30 flight…”
My wife bought chocolate drinks for us and she joined in our conversation.
I ”Anu, see whether you can get transferred to the Chennai branch .You have been away from home for the past seven years. You know we had to celebrate your twenty-sixth birthday last month without you. Anu, It's time that you get married and settle down in life "
Anu ”Dad you know how ambitious I am. I do not want to get married at this time of my career. Please tell mom not to insist that I get married now”.
Viji ” your daughter is ahead of our times .she does not want to get married .she is already married! "
" what am I hearing? Anu is that true “?
Viji ” you heard it right .Your daughter is married to another woman .Her intimate friend Nisha .they are living partners now. How disgusting. Anu says if we are longing for grandchildren, she is willing to become a biological mother without getting married! Your daughter is sick .She needs treatment”.
I ”biological mother? . Anu we are not longing for your illegitimate child. First you understand that gay and lesbian are perverted people . You are a normal healthy woman. Your mother is right. You are sick .You need treatment “.
Anu `` No! Daddy, we have been in love with each other since our college days. We cannot live without each other “.
I ”married to another woman .It is unnatural .Perverted people are mentally sick. You are ruining both of your lives .Get it treated now…"
Anu ”Mummy after dinner I will have to catch my flight by 9.30.”
I “Anu , first you take leave for one month. Why leave? Quit your job .I will get you the best available treatment here in Chennai. Get married to your kind of man and settle down in life. I am not worried about my son in law’s religion or caste. I only want you to lead a normal life .You are only welcome if you are legally married to a man. Even If you chose to live with a man in a live -in relationship, I will never approve of it. I call it a marriage of convenience .One of the partners is likely to get used and abused.”
My daughter did not respond to me . She asked her mother to serve dinner for her. After the dinner she bid bye to her mother and got into her official car and left for the airport. I lit a cigarette and sat on the sofa and started thinking about where my wife and I failed to bring up our daughter .My wife came and sat next to me.
”Viji, tell me was there anything wrong with the way we brought up our daughter”?
" Don’t feel guilty. It was not our fault; we had done our best for Anu. . We gave enough love and affection, more freedom than any other parents would have given to their children. . As long as she was with us she was a normal girl. After she went to engineering college at Coimbatore and stayed with Nisha she misused her freedom. .I knew Nisha was her intimate friend but I never suspected anything wired between them , after all they were teenage girls having a good time .An intelligent and sensible girl like our daughter should have opted for treatment. Nowadays the more the children study, the more they become wired. They blindly follow western cultures…Gay and lisbane marriages, they call it personal preference! . The thought of same sex marriage makes me sick. Those people have no Roots. Imagine the plight of their old parents .In old age when they look forward to sharing their love and affection with their grandchildren. Where do they go searching for...? The thought itself makes me sad “.
I continued ”Viji. Since our daughter is not interested in getting treatment, I think she is at no point of return .If that is the case then be prepared for what I am going to tell you now...”
Viji "Did I ever say anything against you?"
