As M.S.Subbulaxmi's effervescent sound of 'Kausalya Supraja raama' reverberated through the ears of the soundly asleep masses at 'Rengaa'apartments,Saranyu got up from her Pathamadai Paai(mat)and clasped her hands looking towards the smiling picture of 'Guruvayurappan' as she applied Vibhuthi on her forehead and on her still-asleep infant.As she looked through the window of her apartment,her eyes caught sight of the solitary,green leaf which was laden with one small globule of water that had accumulated due to the morning mist.
Suddenly,everything stood still as all the events started appearing as a vista of unpleasant thoughts before her eyes.Not long ago,was she looking through the same window waving at her software engineer husband-Surya with a cherubic smile.Just after 6 months of married life,she had been confronted with the worst shock of her life in the form of a divorce from her husband.If the divorce by itself was a heart-breaker to Saranyu's appa-Govindachari,the real tragedy struck when he learnt of his divorced daughter being 4 months pregnant when she got divorced.A month later,as an added bonus in installments,she had much more shocks in store when she discovered that her husband had generously endowed her with something he had acquired from his trip to Seattle,before their marriage.
As she looked at the water droplet gently roll over the leaf and hold on to the end of the leaf,she couldn't hold her tears.She looked at her 8-day old baby's soft,serene face which bore no signs of any weariness or any worries of the impending catastrophe.Saranyu kept thinking and cursing her fate as she wildly exclaimed and questioned her favourite Gods as to what sin the baby had committed and how was it justifiable to cut short its life abruptly for no fault of it.The sadness grew more at the pass of every second as she could not forgive herself for having passed on the HIV virus from her estranged husband to the innocent infant!
As the drop grew older,Saranyu watched the tragedy unfold as the leaf finally was unable bear the weight of the droplet,letting it fall to the ground and vanish!Govindachari and Saranyu named the baby - Kritanta -'the lord of death' with the thoughts that, in death,it had become GOD.Some people live all their life and prove nothing to the world but the baby had lived only for 21 days yet it had proved its point of a divine existence.As Govindachari started looking for a match for his second daughter Sukanya,he insisted that the potential groom's seeking his daughter's hand attach their BHPM -a biodata/horoscope/photo and a "Medical certificate"!
-Raapi
P.S:All compliments regarding this excellent snap needs to go to my good friend Pradeep Raghunathan.Feel free to access and comment on his other excellent photos at photo.net
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