Posted on: Mar 12, '08
Geetha
After I read Soniji's Princess Diary, I thought I should post this.
Geetha was a woman I'm really close with. She'd look like a really timid person with her short frame and soft voice, but she's the bravest woman I've ever met. She got married to a spineless, mean beast but the way she tackled every problem......I couldn't help crying for all the misfortunes that befell her.
She was brought up in Chennai. Her father was a well to do business man and she literally grew up like a princess with her siblings. When she was 13 her father met with an accident and all his freinds left him having got all his wealth. Her mother was an illiterate and she couldn't do anything except crying.
Geetha and her sisters were learning in a convent run school and the nuns didn't want to leave the family of three of their best students in sorrow. So their education went as it was. By next year the father got better and with his wife's jewelry he started a new unit, he and his son the only workers working all the time inspite of his son's tough school works. Their life dramaticaly changed. While her sisters became bolder the ever timid Geetha was softer. Maybe she was scared by the wicked fate that befell their family. She was always the class topper and a good Veena Vidhwan. In fact she got the 'Kalaimani' award for music students from the then CM M.G.Ramachandran.
Their native being Rajapalayam in southern TamilNadu, Geetha's mother decided to get her married to someone from there. An alliance did come but the guy had lost four of his right hand fingers in an accident. But otherwise everything seemed to be okay and the marriage got over. Only when she went to her in laws place did Geetha realise that she'd be living in a nightmare. Theirs was the meanest family she had known till then. She was mocked because she was a graduate. She was ill treated because she could speak in english and all rich people(read as educated) talked to her. She underwent so much that I don't want to repeat here. Her husband was worse. He had an illegel relationship with a nurse from "lower caste" and his father had made sure Geetha's family doesn't know anything. The husband had already fathered a child. So he was not supportive obviously. When she was about to have her first child and 3 three months after the baby was born he didn't visit her. Only then did they realise that the connection(with the nurse) they thought was severed was still there. He had taken all her jewelry to the lady and after the birth of this child registered their 'marriage' with a date previous to Geetha's. You sure do know what generally happens to a lone woman. She suffered such tortures that a woman shouldn't experience but made sure she and her children were safe. Of course her parents were very supportive but they too were struggling with their problems.
After that I was old enoughto actually see what happened in her life and how she tackled it. Right now, she has got her daughter married and her son is in his final year of education. She underwent so much to reach this stage, so much that made me hate men and distrust society and its systems, so much that'd make you sick in stomach and her problems aren't solved yet. Her husband still comes sometimes. Her co sister forged her signature and took all the property belonging to her children for which she is legally fighting now.
This might seem really light but since I saw what her real problems were and how I felt, I didn't want to write it. Many of you might know people who struggled worse things in life, but I consider Geetha to be the bravest because I know I would've broken under he pressure that was put on her. Hers was a struggle as silent as the whisper of a flower yet as strong as the mighty hurricane. I hope she gets some peace atleast from this year onwards. She had faced more than enough.
Tags: women's day, acheivement, courage
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