Seema’s unborn sister. - A short-story

Seema’s unborn sister. - A short-story

Beautiful Family: Mohan, Neha & Baby Seema

Two lovers, Mohan and Neha got married only after their parents allowed them to marry. It was a long struggle, to get their parents permission to get married. Neha gave birth to a healthy baby, Seema. The family also inherited lots of wealth. The family was well respected.

Mohan's Evil Sister: Thamarai

Mohan had an younger sister, Thamarai. Thamarai was young, cunning and scared of her parents. She never supported Mohan in his struggle to marry, Neha, just to be on the good books of her wealthy parents.

Thamarai was childless. Thamarai was jealous of her brother's wealth and happiness. Whenever the baby girl, Seema fell ill or failed/struggled in school, Thamarai would celebrate and blame that Mohan and Neha don't know, how to raise a child. Time flew. Seema did slightly above average in school. And managed to join JNU university for Bachelor's degree.

Accident: Young Seema lives with Aunt Thamarai

One day Mohan and Neha went to Goa, leaving Seema at home with Aunt Thamarai, for an urgent business trip. The flight Mohan and Neha took disappeared. All the passengers were presumed dead.

Seema became an orphan. Thamarai became guardian of Seema. Thamarai made Seema’s life hell. But Seema loved her aunt, as she had nobody else. Thamarai started taking money from Seema's wealth as expenses for taking care of her. Thamarai also took money from Seema’s wealth for her fertility treatment. Thamarai wanted to have a child of her own, and planned to use all the wealth for that child. She was undergoing artificial insemination, and got impregnated. And her mood swings due to pregnancy resulted in abuses and more household work for Seema.

Twist: Thamarai panics

Despite all that Seema completed her degree. There were rumors that the flight that disappeared had been hijacked 4 years ago, and the passengers are still alive.

Seema’s parents might actually be alive. Thamarai started panicking and prayed that her brother and sister-in-law, better be dead. She wanted the wealth for her own baby. Thamarai started claiming credit that she raised Seema very well and made her get a degree, while her parents were only able to get her finish schooling. And she cannot live without Seema. So even if Seema's parents were alive, she should manage the wealth and Seema herself, and not give back to Neha and Mohan.

Next chapter: Mystery

The next sequence of events is in our hands. Yes our hands. We have a role in this story. Mohan - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Neha - Nehru. Parents - British. Seema - Schemes. Thamarai - Lotus in Tamil. Unborn Sister - Hindutva.

Wrong from illite"race"y

"Right to education" act mandates all schools, including those elite ones, should admit 25% of students from its locality without any test or filtering. I think this is a very good move by Government of India.

But the schools and highly literate rich parents are not welcoming this. No one is denying them the rich the right to education. But they want to remain elite and are afraid of the poor.

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/controversial-circular-decried/195084.html
http://www.mybangalore.com/article/0810/parents-in-bangalore-not-okay-with-rte-act.html
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/parents-say-no-to-inclusive-classrooms/195349.html

Their concerns are
1. Quality of education will suffer.
2. Rich students will learn foul language from poor students.

They should think for a moment, how they felt when their kid was denied admission by a school, which is considered to be slightly better than the one, where their child is currently studying! Not getting admission there will not affect their kid by much. But imagine the difference, it could mean to the poor kid.

Class system by birth still remains. Just that it has become modernized. The rich wants to makes sure that the poor cannot get quality education or get richer. The ancient class system was not as bad as, this mindset of these literates! Gandhiji would be proud of you, intelligent Indians. Untouchability is a sin.

All poor and illiterates are not bad in character or lack mental ability. Not all rich and educated have the best of character with highest mental ability. One's character or intelligence has nothing to do with his economical status.

I firmly believe that if this gets implemented correctly, many of the toppers will be from the 25%. I wonder what is the opinion of "Youth for equality" on this issue. IMO this 25% reservation is not a reservation. But the 100% only rich and educated is the 100% reservation. I love RTE.

Do you know Mahatma?

The Indian 5 rupee coin comes in so many size/shape/design now-a-days.



And it is going to be a tough task to have automatic vending machines accept them. The picture has only few types of 5 Rupee coins, I had at a time. There are many more in circulation.



Till I saw one of the 5 rupee coin which had "MAHATMA BASAVESHWARA" inscribed on it, I assumed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the only Mahatma!




So who is this Mahatma Basaveshwara ? Are there any other people, who are called Mahatma? I found Jyotirao Phule.

Guess, now coins are released in memory of people, incident etc.. instead of stamps. Can you think of anything equivalent that could be done digitally? Or something is already in use?

White ignored in India?

Four coloured tri-colour flag. (நான்கு வண்ண மூவர்ணக்கொடி)



Is it because white is not considered as a colour?



No. The wheel is not considered!

It is composed of three colours with a meaning and a navy-blue wheel in the center. Mexico and Croatia also have tri-colour flags with more than 3 colours! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour