Barrister Babu: Revenge or a Motive?

Chapter 10: Enlightenment of conservative minds

Girls' education is indeed a strategic development priority. But during those days, if we talked about educating a girl, some with orthodox mindset consider it as a sin, some consider it as a waste of time and money while some people with a patriarchal mindset didn't want the women to make equality with the men as they think it will effect their so called Male ego.

Even his Trilochan kaka was against educating his wife Bondita, but due to their constant efforts and fights, Bondita became the first girl from Tulsipur who went to school.

Today when he was standing at the same situation where he failed to convince them for the competition, to his surprise 5 girls from each village turned up at the spot. He concluded in his mind that his Sampoorna maa was the reason behind this that they got ready to participate thus gave her a smile of gratitude. And about Krishna Nagar girls, Thakuma gave a proud look to her granddaughters who managed to get the girls along.

After their meeting with the opponent team, Anirudh went to the ground to begin with the soccer training along with the basics. He was really having a hard time to train them alone as they were playing the game for the first time and the Krishna Nagar people were not fully cooperating with him which was angering him. Above all he had the tension to prepare the girls as well for the competition from the Encyclopedia of around 1000 pages which was given by the judge to both the teams. Now had to prepare a schedule for both as the time was very less.

It was already evening after the practice when both the villagers were gathered in the Panchayat to discuss about the preparation for the girls. But before that Anirudh and Thakuma was keen to know how the girls agreed even after getting brainwashed against educating them.

"Sampoorna maa, aapka jitna shukriyaada karu kam hoga. Par aap ne ye sab kiya kaise?" Asked Anirudh in front of the villagers. At the same time Thakuma also asked Tapur "main jaanti hu humare taraf se bhi tumne hi ladkiyon ko mana kar laayi thi, par maine suna tha ki kal koi aaya tha aur kuch aadmiyo ke kaan bhar ke gaya tha shiksha ke khilaaf, phir tumne aisa kya kiya ki sab aane ke liye maan gayi?" Hearing this Anirudh thought that it must be Bondita only who must have did the same thing with the Krishna Nagar people that she did last night with Tulsipur people. But little did he know that Bondita didn't go to Krishna Nagar but it was Chandrachur's men who manipulated the people last night.

Hearing both of them, all the villagers looked at each other and understood they aren't aware about the incident happened in the morning. Sampoorna came in between and spoke up to clear their misunderstandings. "Anirudh, ladkiyn ko aur gaon walo ko manane ke peeche mera ya hum mein se kisi ka haath nahi tha. Anirudh and Thakuma looked at her confusingly while Sampoorna narrated everything that happened when they were off to meet the Fernsby.

Flashback:

After witnessing the conversation between Anirudh and Trilochan in the morning, Sampoorna headed towards the small Durga temple not before telling Bihari to inform Anirudh that she will be there at the spot in some time. The small Durga temple is situated near the border wall of partition between Tulsipur and Krishna Nagar.

"Hey Dugga maa, ye kaisi pareeksha le rahe hai aap. Jo Bondita Lakshmi ka swaroop hua karti thi, wo aaj khud Anirudh zindagi mein Alakshmi bankar vighn paida kar rahi hai. Anirudh ne uske baba ke iss haalat ke wajah se hi bohot kuch saha hai. Bohot samay baad usne kisi maksad ke liye khud ko taakatwar banaya, aur uss maksad mein vighn aane nahi dena chahti main. Koi toh chamatkaar dikhayiye maa..." She cried in front of the stone idol. That's when she heard the sound of the villagers at the border. Considering it as a usual banter between the rival villagers she was going to ignore that path but a voice caught her attention. "Lagta hai hume sachme jaana chahiye Barrister babu ka saath dene." Hearing this, she reached the border spot in no time.