Family, Interrupted
Sushmita walked… no she ran. She was worried she would collapse on the way. Her heart beat faster than the number of steps her legs were taking in a minute. She called out the names of all the saints she knew on her way to the hospital. She prayed to her God… “Lord, please, please keep him safe. Take my life if you must, but please spare his…” But God had other plans. One look at the motionless face of her husband made her realise that her world had come crashing on her. She collapsed… When she woke up, she saw her three little children huddled around her and darkness all around…
Faith Accompli
For Malini, life was a string of tragedies hung around her neck. The first strike came when she realised that her first born was mentally challenged. She also had a second son and the family of four could hardly make both ends meet with the meagre earnings of her daily wager husband. The second strike came when she lost her husband to TB. Not one to give up, she worked as maid and educated her second son who began to work and earn. Just when the family thought that it could manage, tragedy struck again when she lost this son in a road accident…