IN KERALAM-2

IN KERALAM-2

Sreeja’s background.

She is a married woman. Her husband was involved in some criminal case; so she refused to live with him. However, there was no formal divorce, when she married Sudhir. Muthurssi Vasudevan’s wife is related to Sreeja and it was she, who brought this case to our notice, when we were in Delhi. As my son is a chizophrenic, we wanted his wife to look after him, after our time. We decided to see the lady and came to my wife house.  After much discussion, we decided to see her. We fixed up a date and went to Aryampadam, where she lives.

There was quite a crowd of relatives and my nephew Parameswaran also had come with her. The lady is coal black, thin and sickly. I felt pity for her and thought that any one who marries her and gives her a second lease of married life, will be blessed by God Almighty. Her added qualification is that she is employed and gets regular income of her own. After tea etc, we got her photo and came to our home at Manavazhi.

Parameswaran objected to this marriage:”It is unfair to tie Sudhir to this woman; I will find out a fair girl for Sudhir, from my tharavadu itself.”

Sudhir took six months, after seeing the photo, to take an un-decision. But he used to talk to her and liked her voice. At my wife house, the relatives of Sreejja came and we fixed up the date of marriag.

It is a matter of great satisfaction that their marriage is highly successful and produced two children; about that, later on.