"So where are you coming back from so soon? Shambhu's father said.
Padma's mother bowed her head and said.
"I hope you have heard everything from Ghatak Babu. I got up that morning and went out. I work in six houses. And cooking in three houses. I'm coming back after all that. Somehow, I will go out at three o'clock with two noses in my mouth.
Let's sit at home. Padma!
That's mom!... I'm happy at my uncle's shop! From there, khan bring six chamchams and nimkis. And listen, when I come home, I will come to Hari Kaka's grocery store. From there, bring 200 grams of sugar, 50 grams of powdered milk, and 100 teaspoons of leaves. I'll write it down a few days later.
Padma gritted her teeth in anger. But padma can not say anything by looking at the mother's pale face standing in a completely sweat-soaked body. He nods his head and raises his legs to go to the shop. Suddenly, the boy grabbed Padma's right hand. I don't like padma. The boy said.
"You don't have to do all that. What I've seen. You set the wedding day.
Padma's mother was very happy. Shambhu is almost twice as old as Padma. What does that mean?? It's good to bend the gold ring.
Shambhu's father did not agree. But where the son has agreed to get married, how will he stop!!
After talking for a while, Padma's mother asked for a saree from the aunt of the next house. She put her daughter Padma on and made her stand in front of them.
The boy's father necessarily agreed. The wedding date is fixed on the day of the day. Married just seven days later.
Just three days before the wedding, Shambhu and Shambhu's father came to Padma's house in the evening. He took out a document and handed it over to Padma's mother.
"Except today, tomorrow your daughter will be my wife. Whatever your daughter has, that is, this property. My son will get it later. That's what I'm saying, sister! You sign a will.
I listened to the mosquito... You have six acres of ancestral land lying in Baskura outside the village. Farming is nothing. But the national highway passed by the land. Considering that, the current value of the land is very high. As the day goes by, the price of land will increase. Your daughter is black with one eye on her again. I am a very good person, so I am taking your daughter as my son's wife without any cost. Look when all the relatives will ask me what my son has been given from his father-in-law's house! I can't say anything then. So, if you sign it, I can forcefully say that 6 kathas of land has been given from my son's in-laws' house. The price of 6 cut land in this poor market is very high.
Padma was sitting in the cane wrap and was shaking the ground evenly with the toenails. Although he sat with his head down, his whole body roared in anger but could not say anything in his mouth. He knows very well that the property is his mother's last means of survival. If he writes this too, his mother will have nothing else.
Padma's mother said..." It is my peace if I can see that my daughter will become a wife in the house of a good person like you. Where to sign the day. This time padma says..." I have endured a lot and not. Mom, you won't write that property. And listen, in the absence of my mother, I will be the owner of the property. I'm not married to your son now! But before that you are writing the property. As far as I think... It will not be happy for me to be the wife of your house. You can come.
Shambhu's father was sitting on the chowki. Hearing such a thing in Padma's face, he shouted and said.
"Your daughter's love is no less. He's ever been to my house!!! There is no shortage of rice in my house. The four-story building is mine.
Before the end of the talk, Padma said.
"I don't need to see how big your house is. And say four-story building and ten-storey building! You built everything with fifteen rupees, not with your own money!
"Why don't you talk about what Padma doesn't understand! Sit quietly! Apart from today, tomorrow he will be your father-in-law? Padma's mother said.
Shambhu's father said, "Who will be the father-in-law!! I will not marry my son to your daughter. "
Let's go shambhu.
Shambhu had been listening to these things quietly for so long and did not answer. But this time he said.
"Padma, you didn't do it well. I wanted to marry you and make my house. I used to take care of your mother at my last age. But what can be done is that there is something else written??? Let's go.
After they left the house, Padma's mother broke down in tears. He took out some reports from the bottom of the bed and handed them over to Padma and said.
"I have to see this day for you today. What would have happened if the property was written down!!! He died today for two days. I'll take the property with me???? Look at these things!!! How many days have I been! I wanted to be happy and peaceful. At least I can see your married face.
But I understand very well that there is no writing on my forehead to enjoy happiness?
One by one, the pages of the report were turned upside down. He came to know that his mother had been suffering from blood cancer for the last six months. According to the medical report, his mother's life expectancy is only one month. Padma cried with her mother. says.
"I won't disobey your words anymore. Why didn't you show me before, Mom? I used to take more tuition classes in two or four more houses. Couldn't I have treated you??? .... How can I survive without you!
Padma's mother's tears. He said.
"That's why I wanted to hand you over to the right hands. Who will take care of you for the rest of your life!
Padma says." If you want me to marry that man, I will do it. I'm happy as you are!
Preparations for the wedding are made on time. Padma's mother apologized by sending the news of her son's house to Panchu Babu. He said he would sign the property before donating vermilion on his daughter's forehead on the wedding day.
But the boy's father said he had to sign the day before the wedding. Shambhu will go with a will. Padma has accepted the whole thing. His mother is on the road to death. And there is no child in this world who does not want to fulfill the mother's last wish. However, at around 8 pm on the day before the wedding, Shambhu came and stood in front of Padma's house. Padma's mother repeatedly told her to come in the morning. On the day before the wedding, the husband and wife do not have to see each other's main visit. The rule continues in the villages. But he couldn't give the boy anything else! This is the six-cut land that belongs to it. He wanted to write it down when it was in the light of day. But Shambhu does not come during the day but is at night. At that time, Padma's mother went to invite Mother Ganga with some sisters and aunts of the next house. The house is empty.
Padma was lying on the bed. At that time, he could not even imagine Shambhu's hope. Shambhu came directly into their room. And see Padma lying on the bed! Padma was lying with her eyes covered with her hands.
Shambhu continued to move towards the Padma with a brutal look, cutting his lips from the inside of the shirt, rubbing his hands on the hairy chest. Then slowly moving closer to padma, going to open the cloth from the chest, at that time Padma removes the hand from the eyes.
Shambhu did not see padma's eyes very well. Shambhu was frightened to see Padma's eyes in the dark room. Padma's mother and neighbours have just stepped into the courtyard of the house by inviting the Ganges.
Not a single word comes out of his mouth. With his hands and legs folded in fear, the tall man seems to be getting shorter.
Starting from the neighbors, Padma's mother became busy with Shambhu. Marriage comes to mind!
The news of the boy's house was sent to Ghatak Panchu Kaka in a hurry. The boy's father rented a car and quickly took the son away. However, before leaving, he heard many things aimed at Padma. He said.
"At first, I told you not to marry this girl! He started doing evil before he entered my house. Let's see what happened to my son this time?
Padma's mother, along with her neighbours, went to the hospital with her son's fatherIn the midst of all this, no one has ever searched for the Padma. But he didn't go out. After taking Shambhu away, Padma walked on slow feet to Banskura and near that six-cut land.
The road to the ground is quite clear in the sweet light of Jyotsna. It's hot on Baishakh. Around the land, large palm trees stand with their heads held high. The light of the moon has come on the leaves of the palm tree. From a distance, it looks like natural gold is shining. The moon is now right in the middle of two palm trees. The call of the city's insects can not be heard. But in the village, it is still heard that this insect is vibrating rich. And most of it can be heard in this field. It hasn't rained for a long time and the soil is dry. When it rained, the sound of frogs could also be heard. The Padma has reached the western corner of their land. There is not a single tree in the middle of this whole land. But where the Padma is sitting, there is a thorny cactus. This tree is also called Phonimonsa. The Fonimansa tree is awake in the chest of dried-up soil. The tree doesn't look like it hasn't rained a drop for the last seven days. The leaves of the tree are quite swollenWe know that the leaves of the cactus store water for the future in themselves. The tree is basically a desert tree. But in many places in our country, this tree is also seen in many houses. But this tree is a little different from other trees.
Padma went and sat next to the tree. There are plenty of thorns in the Fonimansa tree. But this tree is so different, padma is sitting on the tree! But he doesn't have that much to cut.
Shambhu has been admitted to the hospital. The doctor gave an election. Shambhu lost consciousness in Padma's house. After the injection, he regained consciousness. And as soon as he regained consciousness, Shambhu opened his eyes and shouted, "I can't see anything? Dad, where are you?? I can't see anything!
Every member of the house was sitting in the next cabin. Hearing Shambhu's screams from inside the house, all of them ran away. His father said.
"What happened, Dad? Why are you shouting? Tell me what's wrong?
Shambhu says crying.
"Dad, I can't see anything! All dark?
My father said." What's that! Tell the doctor!! What's wrong with me?
The doctor came quickly. Examining Shambhu's eyes with a torch, he said.
"Strange! Can't see the retina?
Shambhu's father said "What's that thing again?
The doctor said, "The retina is the light-sensitive part of the eye. A sensitive place in the eye. It's at the back of the eye. It has ten layers. Here the light falls, the picture is made from the light and goes to our brain through the nerves. Then we can see. The retina is very sensitive. Whenever there is a problem here, people's eyesight decreases at first. It can happen quickly. It can happen slowly again.
Shambhu said." But why can't I see?
The doctor called a nurse. A syringe of blood was taken from Shambhu's hand. According to the doctor, the blood was sent for testing quickly. Everyone, including Padma's mother, is standing in unison.
Shambhu's father said.
"What happens if you do a blood test, doctor?
The doctor said.
When blood sugar rises, the narrow blood vessels in the retina are damaged, the narrow blood vessels are torn off. From there, blood and other fluids leak. As a result, the tissue of the retina swells. The sight comes in. That's why I let the test take place. Wait for an hour and the report will come now!
The doctor went out. The nurse asked everyone else to go out of the house.
"Please go out now. Sir, you will be called when you come.
Shambhu's father looked at the nurse rudely and said, "I stay! If I am, no one will say anything."
He doesn't know that if you have money, you can go everywhere with whatever you want. Hearing this, the nurse took the phone kept near Shambhu's head and called the security guard and asked him to take shambhu's father.
"Hello! You come to room 16 right away. The patient's father doesn't want to go out. "....
Within seconds of placing the phone, a well-nourished young boy came and politely asked Shambhu's father to leave the house. He may have forgotten.
It's a hospital, not everyone here will do as he says. Like an obedient son, he went out.
Ten minutes after everyone came out, Shambhu shouted again.
Hearing the screams, everyone goes inside the house and says Shambhu
"Dad is burning my eyes? It's as if I'm blowing a thorn in my eyes. Dad is burning me so much!
Shambhu's father saw. Blood is dripping from his left eye. And in the right eye, the black pearl disappeared.
Shambhu says again in pain.
"Take him away from me? I don't want to look at him!!! Take him out of front of my eyes!
Hearing this, Shambhu's father said.
"What are you saying! Who has come in front of you?
There is no one in your room except me and the nurse!
Shambhu screamed again.
"Father, you heal him! That's awful! Father, I can't bear the pain!
Seeing the situation deteriorating, the nurse quickly went to call the doctor. The doctor came and put Shambhu to sleep with an injection. And he told everyone in the house..." Look, you go home. The blood report will come tomorrow. Now everyone is sleeping in the hospital. Please don't inconvenience anyone. He will come to the visiting area tomorrow morning.
This time he did not delay going out as he was insulted by the nurse for the first time. They all went out together. Padma's mother and other neighbours all left for home. Before leaving the hospital, Padma's mother told Shambhu's father.
I don't know if Ghatak Babu told you! But if someone insults my Padma with his eyes, he feels very sad. I am really sorry for shambhu's condition. What else can be done by Dada Adrishta's writing. Now I tell Thakur that Shambhu should get well soon.
After everyone left, the main gate of the hospital was closed. Shambhu was alone in the cabin. Shambhu went to the bathroom with the help of a nurse at night. It was right in the bathroom!! But he didn't come out. About half an hour later, the nurse entered through the door and saw. There was a stream of blood all over the floor, and two eyes were floating in that stream.
Shambhu's body is sometimes shaking. And one thing is coming out of the mouth.
"Take him, Dad! I can't look into his eyes!!! How did he come to me?? How long ago did I kill him with my own hands!
"Ah! What an irritation!! What a pain!! Oops. I can't stand it anymore!
Many nights Shambhu's father gets an emergency call from the hospital. He was asked to go to the hospital soon.
Panchu Ghatak did not return home at night. He stayed with Shambhu's father at their house. After getting the call from the hospital, he along with Shambhu's father left for the hospital.
Meanwhile, it had been many nights for Padma's mother to reach home. Padma was sitting alone in the house. As soon as the mother comes home, Padma says, "Mother, what is the news there? He's fine?
Padma's mother said.
"And good! As far as it seems, the boy will never be able to see in the eyes again!
Suddenly a young girl's voice came from behind.
It's as if it's referring to Padma's mother.
"Mother! I'm hungry! Don't let me eat!
How long have you not eaten rice?
Turning back, Padma's mother took the girl in her arms. Then he ate the cooked boiled rice with his own hands. Padma stands stunned by her mother's behavior.
In fact, the mother who is feeding and the mother who is calling; Padma can't see him. But his mother is easily talking to that invisible person. He's talking very naturally. Padma had never seen her mother do such a thing. Then another incident happened. Her mother sang and started putting the invisible girl to sleep.
Padma understands a very unusual feeling in her mother. A little scared, he called out with his hand on his mother.
"Mom! Oh, who are you talking to? I can't see anyone?
His mother replied to Padma's words.
"What is he?? Your sister! To your sister.
Can't you see?
"No? Says Padma.
His mother said this time. Sulochana! Would you talk to didi a little?
This time Padma could hear it!
"Didi! This sister!! You've forgotten me?
I left the world for you!
Hearing the name Sulochana... The throat dries up and becomes wood! He swallowed a lid and said.
"Sister, you! How did you get it?? You died in a Gezhis accident when you were a child! Your parents are looking for you a lot! Where did you get lost?? And how are you so small?
The sound of a laugh comes out. Then the girl says, "The soul does not age! So I'm still small. That's what you remember of me.
This time the Padma says. Where did mom get you from?
The girl laughed again and said.
"Didi is still a fool like she was a child. Why would mom bring it? You brought me!
Padma was really surprised this time.
Frowning, he says. "Where did I get you from? I sat on that land? Did I call you?
This time the girl got a little angry. With a little mood, he says." At the bar you hugged me and cried! Won't I come to erase your grief?
Padma remains silent and tries to remember a little. After a while, he remembers; Padma really cried by holding on to a fanimonsa tree; For today's humiliation. And surprisingly, not a single thorn in the Fonimansa tree touched him. Padma says.
"That means you're staying on that fanimonsa tree on the west side of the entire empty land?
The girl said, "I don't live in the tree!! I am still there when the ground is buried under the tree!"..
Padma is really surprised.
Before he could say anything, his mother said.
"Do you know what happened to Shambhu? Padma listened silently. The invisible girl says " I've done that, Mom! At first, I blinded him by bleeding with a thorn in his eye. Then I took a few more tree thorns and opened his eyes!
Hearing these words of the girl and listening to her mother, the ground moved away from the bottom of Padma's feet. Padma saw the invisible sister in the gentle light of Jyotsna, wiping away the darkness. Who is the reflection of his childhood when he sees it?? And Padma is afraid to see both eyes.
Because the girl had one eye out of 2 eyes!
The area of the eye on the other side was a big black hole where the blood stains were still dry!
Padma touches her two eyes once with her hand! Padma's eyes that were not normal meant there was a tara! On that side, there was a hole in the place of her eyes.
Little by little, Padma remembers that childhood. Padmavati and Sulochana had two sisters. Once the two sisters were out for a walk with their parents. They were five or six years old. One of Padma's eyelids was damaged in a car accident. That is, it went a little up from where it should be normal. For which Padma seemed to be a terra. Padma heard the whole incident in her mother's mouth. Because Padma had fainted after the accident. But even after asking his parents about his sister Sulochana, he did not get any answer. Then it takes time!! The day kept changing; Padma had forgotten about Sulochana a little bit.
After seeing her sister after so many years, she does not even know what padma's mental state was like. He won't be happy or afraid?
Padma asked his mother after being silent for a while.
"Well, why is mom and sister saying that? He really gave his life for me?? You know everything!!".
Padma's mother said..." Their two sisters had an accident when they were very young. You were born on the day of Nag Panchami by lighting my house!!.. We were very happy. The day was going well. But in the midst of happiness was hidden the black cloud of sorrow. You remember the accident!!".
Padma says." I don't remember all that! I remember what I heard from you as a child.
This time Padma's mother started saying.
In fact, that day's accident tie, nothing happened to us, but your two sisters were greatly damaged. One of your two eyeballs was severely damaged. And one of your sister's two eyes came out of the skull of the brain after being hit by a car!
That's where Sulochana lost his life. When the doctor told us that one of your eyes was damaged, and there was no more life in Sulochana's body! Then your father made a difficult decision. Could Sulochana's damaged eye not be operated into padmavati's eyeball in any way!
The doctor heard this and told your father that it was possible. Then Sulochana's eyes were placed in your eyes.
After hearing this, Padma said.
That means my sister is still alive in this eye of mine! But what is the relation of Shambhu with the mother? Sulochana laughed again and said. Shambhu may not have a relationship with Shambhu's father! Shambhu's father was an enemy of our father. But I came to know about it after my death.
Shambhu's father had a long-standing dispute with his father over the land in Bankura. One day, we left home to visit the fair. Shambhu's father always put a man behind our father, whose whereabouts father never knew! That day too, on the way back from the fair, Shambhu's father deliberately pushed the four of us. My parents fell on the side of the road. You went to the middle of our land. I was in front of the car. Shambhu's father was not alone in the car. Shambhu was also in the car. They pushed out. My parents came running and rescued me. My head was in unbearable pain. I could see with one eye, and I couldn't see with one eye. Before I lost consciousness, I told this father that I want to live, you save me. I saw Didi falling towards the field. Then when I get to know, I see.My parents are crying around my body. The doctor is telling me to put my eyes in your eyes. I was very sad in my mind; But I realized my father wanted me to keep me alive.
Shambhu got out of the car at the moment of the accident and saw me. In the midst of unbearable eyeache, I may have seen Shambhu once in my out-of-the-eye. Since then, the faces of their father and son have been glued to my eyes.
On the first day when they came to see you, Shambhu's father looked at my eyes but Shambhu did not look at me. I am sure Shambhu would have remembered that day if he had looked once! Because at the moment of the accident, Shambhu was shocked to see my terrible eyeball. That's why Shambhu looked at you today! Then similarly he saw the apple of my eye and got scared.
I was very angry with him so I followed him. This time I have taken the pain that I kept in my heart all these years ago. What would have happened if they had not hit us with their car that day? After finishing the speech, Sulochana laughed again. This time Padma said. "I understand everything, but why did I bring you this?"
Sulochana says. That cactus tree on the west side of the land is not there; under that tree, my parents buried my frozen body. We were not yet 12 years old. And children under 12 years old are buried after death! !You know that. Since then I have been staying there. After leaving with Shambhu, I left Shambhu because I couldn't bear your tears. Shambhu saw that my parents kept me there. After my parents left, Shambhu wanted to take my body from there and burn it; so he set it on fire and left there. But nature may not have wanted that. So after some time it started raining and the fire got extinguished. Maybe Shambhu thought the body was burnt!!! But who can stop him with the help of nature!
The shadowy figure disappeared with a smile. Padma's mother says "Where are you going mother?
Sulochana says." I'm freed! I'm leaving!
Padmavati and Padmavati's mother bid Sulochana a tearful farewell.
Panchu Ghatak came next morning. Padma called her mother
"And Boudi! Are you at home?
Padma's mother comes out of the house and says.
"What's the matter so early-morning!
Panchu Ghatak says."Brought Sambandh for Padma!! Pot Engineer. No demands. Don't even need your land. Just want Padma.
Padma comes out of the house saying.
"Is that so? But what about Shambhu Babu!
Panchu Ghatak says." And tell me, mother!! Both father and son are completely crazy. The son's two eyes are gone. And the father's brain is damaged in that pathetic condition of the son. I went to the hospital with him last night. Everything was normal then. But suddenly the son Seeing that, she screamed and ran away from the hospital, where did she go? So far, no trace has been found! It's good... Finally, I married you in a mad house, how could I live in peace!! Stomach moved. I wouldn't have been infamous!
Two days later, in the evening, Padma came to see her husband. As before, Padma's mother took a rough saree from her cousin next door and put Padma on it. After Padma came and sat in front, everyone saw Padma... The boy took one look at Padma and said to Panchu Ghatak...."Uncle, you said that the girl has a problem with one eye! But where is it perfectly fine with both eyes!
Padma herself jumped up from the chair after hearing the words of her son. Seeing his own face in a broken mirror; Really surprised. I think in my mind.
"His sister is at peace. That's why the eyeball is fixed. Suddenly she sees Padma in the mirror!!...Or the eyeball is falling down like that. It seems as if Padma is saying "Didi! Your worthy husband has arrived. He will take good care of you too. I know everything beforehand. He really has no greed for our father's property. You take him as your husband. you will be happy And if you are happy, I will be happy too!! I will see this world through your eyes!
"Indeed it may be so! said Sir.
Samar said."Sir this is a story!! Did you enter the story or not?
Sir, listening to Samar's story, he could see the whole thing in front of his eyes. It took some time to get used to it. Then he said.
"There is life in your story. What is the story about eyes?
Samar said "Then the story is about the thing that makes our face more beautiful when we smile!
Sir said." You mean teeth!
Samar said."Exactly so! My next story is called "Hasti Dantini"!
Sir said."Hey start! I can't be controlled!