Aami Page #7

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Pretending she doesn't

know anything!

'The night is about to go to sleep'

'The moonlight drying up Is caressing

the trembling leaves of peepal tree'

'Bahmaniamma Departs'

'I feel the cold thickening

in the wind somewhere'

'The scent of white lotus blooming'

Am ma,

Why did you return

Without staying back for the funeral?

The media people were

looking for you..

I left because I didn't

want them to pick on me..

Mom had written a lot

about motherhood..

But when I was a child, I don't

remember her hugging or cuddling me..

If you have love within,

why not show it?

How can one not fondle

one's children?

I brought up my kids,

Fondling them a lot..

None of my Hindu

friends visit me now..

Yesterday, people there were staring at me

As if I were a strange animal!

How can they behave like this?

Sad!

Yes, I think it is this house!

Who are you?

- I want to meet Kamalutty.

Who?

- Kamala Surayya.

I can't let you in like that.

You've to take prior appointment.

Where are you from?

- From Kozhikode..

I was with her long time back"

She wrote these books about me..

Ok, go ahead

You may 90.. I'll come later.

Okay.

Go to the bus stand.

I can't think and write

as per your decisions..

You may be a writer or whatever"

But you are a Muslim now..

Islam clearly lays down rules about

How Muslim women should behave"

As per your directions

Don't I make speeches about such things

To women in Kozhikode and Malappuram?

Isn't that enough?

If Surayya writes and does things

like Madhavikkutty did earlier,

We'll have to interfere in that.

Now you may leave"

I've some work to do..

Hey, wait.

Can I take a photo?

We're leaving"

- Okay. Go!

You, Jan uam ma!

Who are these people?

I saw many of them downstairs too..

I couldn't recognize you at first!

What kind of a dress is this?

I saw your photo in

the papers too..

You came alone from Kozhikode?

My son-in-law dropped me here..

Because you changed religion"

Before I die,

I wanted to see my Kamala once more..

Now, like before, can you put big bindi

on your face, and let your hair down?

That image is imprinted

in everyone's mind!

You shouldn't have done this!

What do you like me to look as?

Did you hear?

Kamala Surayya is coming

to Punnayurkulam tomorrow!

Its there in the papers!

- I saw!

Coming there is fine!

But if she enters the serpent grove,

We won't allow it!

Now it is the temple com mittee

That lights the lamp there!

This portion of the com pound

This serpent grove and the land where

Neermathalam stands still belongs to her!

How can I tell them

not to enter there?

They are going to donate this land

To Literature Academy!

I know that too..

If anyone comes to

demolish the grove

Maybe this is my last

visit to Punnayurkulam

"and to the land of Neermathalam!

Kamala Surayya, go back!

Don't play with faith.

It's dangerous.

Sir, please ask them to move aside

Kamala Surayya, go back!

Don't play with faith.

It is dangerous!

Move aside, man

Let her get down..

Madam, the people are a bit violent!

Isn't it better to go back?

No, I wont go back

Take that wheel chair"

Where are you going?

Move!

Move away!

We won't allow desecration

of serpent grove.

Don't play with faith.

It is dangerous.

We won't allow desecration

of serpent grove.

Kamala Surayya, go back!

No entry to the grove

Kamala Surayya, go back!

You better go back!

Othenlvise blood will

be spilled here!

Non-Hindus are not allowed

desecrate this place

Don't play with the goddess!

- Push that hag aside!

My mother, grandma and great grandma

Had lighted lamp in this grove!

Their souls are hovering here

In whatever manner, name or dress I come

But before I leave this soil,

It is my right to come to this serpent

grove and the Neermathalam tree..

I am Valli, mistress!

Do you remember me?

But Valli calls herself servant,

Isn't it so, Valli?

Please let me sit here

alone for some time..

All of you, please disperse..

I won't be able to come here again, Karma!

I am also leaving my Krishna here..

I think it is time for

me to leave everything"

If that is your destiny,

How can I prevent it"?

When it is time to die,

The wild elephants can sense it..

They move away from other elephants

And withdraw into inner forest

In the solitude and security of the forest

They seek a lonely death!

Like that,

I too am a wild elephant now

A wild elephant, withdrawn into

the forest. lying tired..

Around me,

only the silent music of the forest.

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