ഭAnu, who is in-charge of internal audit at Amore Hospital in Hyderabad, shares a tearful note while discussing Vismaya’s suicide and subsequent court verdict in Kerala following the torture. Anu writes on Facebook that the memories were flashing in her tear-filled eyes as she gazed through the news of the awe-inspiring death.
Anu’s note is regarding a mother who endured life in a cheeky furidan, enduring all the hardships of life, enduring the beatings and thunder of her father. According to Anu, her mother was only 35 years old at the time and she was so tired that she sought refuge in suicide.
Chechi was 18, Anu was 14 and Aniyan was 10 at the time of the tragedy on June 2, 1989. Your mother used to say that your father would tie the knot before he died at the age of sixteen. That word was correct. According to Anu, the father did not buy a single towel for his children and remarried four years following his mother’s death.
Anu’s note also reminds us that if a wife commits suicide at her husband’s house, the law still requires that her father, mother and family be held responsible.
You can read Anu’s Facebook post
As I look through the news of the awe-inspiring death, memories flash in my overflowing eyes .. I have been crying since morning …
At the age of 35, my mother passed away in Feridon, where she was beaten to death by her husband.
The mother-in-law, who used to come home in the evening following working day and night, saw her husband sleeping on toddy. Housework would only happen if I went to work every day. When I came home from work, I was told that if I worked from morning till evening, I was paid Rs. Instead, when he got ten paise more for kitchen work in the next house and threshing paddy, the poor man wanted to go to the Koothattukulam market with twenty rupees.
In the scorching heat of the tarmac on MC Road, the poor man had a hard time practicing to walk with a damp cloth on top of the roller, and to go to work in the warka houses, which had become popular in the meantime, and to buy the metal pots that he threw from below without falling with both hands. When he went to carry the cut, Chachan beat his mother in front of the loading lorry and asked, “Will you go to work with the men?” Sreedharan Chettan’s sister ran away and abducted him, but following coming home, he beat the poor man, hit him in the chest with a granite stone and told us not to touch our mother anymore.
The next day, my mother went to my mother’s house and told me to come and talk to my father and mother – in – law. When Kunjammavan was one and a half years old ..the three siblings who did not have a mother came and left Chachan doing some good things, his aunt’s father told him that I had not done anything to him and that he did not want to quarrel with you anymore. .
They came and went, and a few days passed without much trouble … When the talisman was sold and destroyed, my mother later bought a sovereign talisman with the money her mother had amassed and the money her mother’s father had given her in a bid to make a talisman of gold … and put it in a bowl of mustard and rice. ..Once my mother came back from work, there was no necklace in the pot..When we asked the children if they had taken it anywhere, they replied that they had not seen it..Athiyan said that he would take it too and sell it and it would be ruined. Aniyan went and asked, “Where is my mother going? I will have a fight with you from here. If you are sleeping, I will go to Mannathoor (mother’s house). I may come in the morning.” When my mother came home the next morning following going to bed, she prepared me for Kochi and told me not to go to work. .She went to the fifth class in Uppukandam school and to the ninth class in Palakuzha school..My sister who passed with pre-degree first class … left us at school and left Chechi to take photos TTC To apply … After that my mother came to Koothattukulam … Then we were not at home … Chachan was sleeping in the other room … My mother who went to Koothattukulam was holding a poison bottle in her hand … Chachan didn’t even look back … It was Chechi who came out and saw his mother lying paralyzed and called people …
When we came back from school, we saw a group of people in the rubber plantation. ..My aunt fell down without being informed and told me that she would go to the hospital and come here tomorrow.
Everybody said Bhavani would not die … She was hard-hearted or she had endured all his beatings and thunder for so long … Even though she came to work, she did not drink the porridge peacefully..He did not pay for it … It must have been he who did it all … The police heard this and told his mother’s father and uncles Asked if you have a complaint … We’ve been small..If you put him in jail, who will have these children? In the past, if we did not listen to our children, my mother would argue that if I died, your father would tie another knot before I turned sixteen.
