14 – Sanchita Karma*
“Why are you so cruel to us, chasing us for such a long time, but not catching us?” the male mouse asked the herd of seven cats, large and small.
“We shall tell you the reason. We are souls of the seven cats whom you poisoned to death in your previous life. Do you know who you were in your last birth? You were Stephen, an Advocate and this, your wife, Stella, a housewife. I am Preethi, the grandma of all these children and grandchildren. These two are my first daughters, Manikutty and Ammini. The others are their children, Kinganan, Rowdy, Kittu and Kitty. Tell us why you killed us? What harm did we do to you?” Preethi exploded.
“We don’t think that we had a life before this,” the male mouse said.
“Even if we had one, we hadn’t killed anyone,” the female mouse adde
