When It Rains

Acid Rain

Madhav's POV

       I don't know how long I have been in this room? No food, no water. Other corner of room I saw Kiran is sitting. When I saw him, I couldn't stop myself from slapping him. I asked him, if he loved my Anu why did he betray her? Why did he do this to my daughter? He said , he had no such plan. He was not aware of Sathyan's plan. But he knew that Sathyan was going to blackmail them. Kiran begged sorry from me. Now what is the point of forgiveness? I don't know how many more hours left for me in this earth? Sathyan said he already sold me for kidney.

       I am a doctor. So, while we were in mental hospitals, I doubted that Sathyan is involving in organ mafia. Because sometimes, poor orphan mental patients would go missing. In newspaper it would come as a small column missing report. Hospital authorities would keep silence. Further investigations wouldn't be there.  After few days everyone would forget it. But I knew that something fishy was behind it. Because , a demon like Sathyan will never run a mental hospital for charity. I know he have no sympathy to any patient. He is a criminal.
He would misuse patients sexually too. Me and my Uma several times undergone sexual tortures. To tell the truth, in front of my eyes, Sathyan and his men would molest her. They wouldn't leave me too. Until then I was not very much aware of sexual violence to men. And since years I was suffering the same. He would inject drugs to Uma. But he never injected that to me. He really wanted to make her insane as his father. But he underestimated my wife's mental capacity. Though she would act insanely, I knew that she was conscious. Whatever torture they gave, still we never opened our mouth to reveal the secret about Anu.

         First time I met Uma at her home.  I went their home with Asok. She is same age of Archana. That time she just joined for her BA literature. She said, she wanted to be a lecturer. Those golden memories were our life supporter during our suffering.

           I didn't know that, Archana and Asok was in love. They too kept their love secretly. First time when I met Uma, she was coming after taking her bath , a towel was wrapped around her long hair. She is an exact copy of Asok. But I felt her more cute and beautiful . I too don't know when we fell in love. But of course ours is a love at first sight. Because, after seeing her for first time , I would go Asok's home with or without reasons . My hidden intention for all my visits were to see Uma. After one year I confessed my love to her. She was so scared but I understood she too loves me. Because she didn't reject me. So, one day , I went her college to see her. Poor girl was shivering with fear. She was so worried, she said , she had no courage to go against her family. If her grand father knows about our relation, he would finish me. And he would stop Uma's studies. But still she admitted one thing, she too didn't want to lose me. I was in heaven by hearing that. I know , though I am a doctor, I couldn't think a marriage alliance with a girl from Gopala Menon's family. Our social status was too low when compared to Uma. We decided to separate to avoid future problems. One year we had no contact with each other. But during that time we realized, we can't live without each other. We knew that we couldn't convince her family. Even if my family supported us, they could never go against Uma's grand father. They were scared of Uma's grand father. During that time, I heard the news about Asok and Archana's relation.  Though it was a double shock in both families we four were in deep love. Asok ran away with Archana.  We too couldn't tolerate for long.  Uma's grand father got the news, he locked up her. We lost contact.  That time Sathi and Sivan was our mediators.  One night Sathi helped Uma to escape from her home.  Sivan was waiting for us . He gave two tickets to us.  Their relatives were in Wayanad.

         It was a forest . People residing there were too innocents.  Illiterate, poor villagers.  I started a clinic there.  Uma went for Post graduation in Town. Weekends only she would come. When she was pregnant for first time, she said Sathyan visited her in the hostel.  He gave her some snacks and said Sivan couldn't come , Sathi made that snacks for her.  She believed him, because Sathi knew that Uma loved that particular snack very much.  Uma ate it happily.  After some time she had stomach pain. And had miscarriage.  After that, she undergone depression. It took more than six months to get over from our first child's loss.