A Night of Solace...
The Sun of the May was emitting scorching hot rays of heat. After the siesta, two daughters of Ammu with their Grandma, were making cow dung cakes under the soothing shade of the Acacia tree. Dadi saw someone running along the fence decorated with the sharp thorns of Acacia. It was Panditain, the lady next door and a close friend of dadi. She quickly opened the gate made up of branches and twigs, and ran under the shade to heal her sun burns away. “Where is Ammu?”, enquired Panditain. “I haven't seen her doing the household chores these days”. “That whore is sitting inside as she has blown out her tummy to give a birth to another witch”, replied Dadi. Although Ammu's daughters were busy making cakes they did pay attention to every word that came from Dadi”. Jigna the elder daughter of Ammu understood what Dadi had said and it was nothing new for her. Sneha wondered what the word 'Whore' mean? To quench her thirst of curiosity she whispered into Jigna&