(AI translated version of तोेड़ दो बेड़ियां ) 

Chapter-2

Ragini – What happened, Mom? 

Hearing this question, Smita got more angry and said with anger.

Smita – Even if the whole world turns from here to there, this princess doesn’t know anything! Neither do we know who came into the house or who went out. Nor is it known whether the house has been swept or not. Wonder what kids have become these days? It seems as if he has never learned to help his mother in her work. Even if the mother breaks down while working and carrying the burden of the household.

Ragini saw that mom’s temperature was high, so she left the laptop and went to sweep her room.

Such conversations used to happen frequently in this family of Rajsamand. Neither Smita could find any way out nor did her children help her even though they were grown up. Vinayak had dedicated himself as a section officer in a private office. His father Jagdishwar and mother Narmada Devi also lived together. Smita’s father was living a retired life after serving in the Secretariat of Lucknow. Everyone was engrossed in their own world. Smita wanted to move ahead in her life but due to lack of adequate support from her in-laws and her maternal family, all her wishes remained unfulfilled. Vinayak’s expectation from Smita was that she should manage the household properly. Don’t waste time in writing etc. He believed that he was earning so much that Smita did not need to earn. He also wanted Smita to take care of his aging parents, Rajrani Devi and Devendra Singh, who were suffering from diabetes and heart problems. Keep serving him from time to time. Bring his medicines etc. Vinayak’s thinking was that earning money is the job of the men of the house and women should just take care of the responsibilities of home and family.

But when does time remain the same? An incident in Smita’s life, which would be more appropriate to call an accident, turned everything upside down. That day Vinayak was returning home in his two-wheeler. Then a biker hit his bike. The strap of the helmet worn on Vinayak’s head broke and the helmet fell away. Vinayak fell on the road bleeding. He was lucky that some of the people gathered at the accident site were of good nature. Instead of making a video of the accident and making it viral, he called the government RS Hospital, called an ambulance, and admitted him to the ICU.

When Smita and her family came to know about Vinayak’s accident, they camped in the hospital itself and put all their energy into saving Vinayak’s life, from donating blood, visiting doctors, arranging medicines and bandages, etc. Gave. After about a month, when Vinayak’s condition improved, the doctors discharged him from the hospital. He was also asked to rest at home for a year so that the fractures in his arms and legs could heal after the permanent plaster was removed

Due to fractures in the arms and legs, Vinayak’s office work started getting affected. His office people kept paying him salary without any work for a month but from the next month, they halved Vinayak’s salary. Now it has become difficult to run the household. On the basis of Vinayak’s salary, the family which used to eat Basmati rice every day, started living by eating cheap rice.

to be continued…

(imaginary Story)