The villagers saw her running and started chasing her. She could barely hear the blames, curses and other things the villagers throw at her as her mind was filled with the one and only thought of saving her daughter. She tightened her grip around the knife in her hand. “Jaanu! Where are you?”, mother’s voice could be heard throughout the village except Jaanu.
She was on the river shore waiting for a man who kept his word and punished the people who tried to disturb her and her mother. The man told her that he would come and see her at the end of the day. So the little girl was waiting on the shore for more than three hours. She lost herself after a while and fell asleep under a tree shade in the riverside. She was clueless about what was going on in the village, she was clueless about he
