The Binding String

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PRESENT DAY

DR. SHALINI CLINIC

"Ishita, the verbal abuse you mentioned remained continued for all the years you lived with your grandparents?"

"Yes, they started to call my mother disgrace for leaving her husband and somewhere the root cause of all the issues was me. They wanted her to abandon me at the hospital only but she remained firm and took me back home but even that was not of no use. The love for me started to fade, the hoax of reuniting with her husband and family started to drift her away from the reality and I found myself disappearing from the picture once I painted with my Akka and Amma."

"Do you have resentment towards your sister?"

"You know Shalini, when I was a kid and my sister and cousins used to bully me calling liar. At that time I used to cry and imagine myself confronting my sister that day when she would come to know about the truth but now as we grow up, I don't feel like talking to her. My feelings and emotions died for her long back. No amount of fights and arguments can bring back my precious childhood, they ruined me just to satisfy their own egos. Akka is just one person, they showed her what they want to show, what about my mother, my grandparents, my uncle-aunt. I have an 'n' number of culprits but I know my anger and my pain won't affect them. They killed me internally Shalini, they made me believe that love can only cause you pain, attachments bring nothing but tears. They......they transformed me into a whole different person which I wasn't.

I don't want to keep in any relationship with her."

Ishita wiped her tears and looked back at Shalini who was passing her a sympathetic smile.

"How was your life after coming to Delhi?"

"Nothing changed much except one fact that my father was no longer interested in bringing my mother back.

My grandfather's health started to deteriorate in their days, he was upset and depressed because of his favourite daughter's sufferings and one day he had a mild heart attack. My grandmother and mother's whole attention was on my grandfather and it was the moment my aunt was waiting for."

YEAR 1997
MADURAI

"Madhavi, can you sign these papers for me?"

"What are these papers about Anna?"

"Property papers."

"I didn't get you."

"These papers say that you're willingly transferring all your property shares to your brother." His wife Subhadra spoke, leaving Madhavi and her mother shocked.

"What rubbish Narsimha! Madhu won't sign these papers."

"Amma please! Already we have spent a fortune on her and her daughters. This is a remuneration cost of that wealth." Narasimha replied nonchalantly, making Madhavi head spin.