Zainab loved and respected her mother and from her childhood she had shared her joys and sorrows with her mother. Zainab felt the need to share her happiness with her mother but at the same time she was afraid too as her lover was from a different faith and her mother being very religious might raise an objection.
These thoughts in her mind was disturbing Zainab and she decided to share her thoughts with Mr, Mehta.
Mr, Mehta is a honest and straight forward man and he doesn't life to hide things when he knows that he is not doing anything wrong. He encouraged Zainab to speak out to her mom. He told her that anyways she has to tell her mom some day so why not today.
Zainab's mother had seen her in happy mood of late and she had asked her umpteen number of times the reason for her Happiness which Zainag had had never disclosed and always gave some other reasons. Today armed with the power of love and support from Mr, Mehta she decided to tell everything to her mom.
Zainab saw the opportunity when her mother was in good mood and she decided to vent out her heart to her.
Zainab : Mother !! I have something to say to you.
Saying this she held her mother's hand and both of them settled in the sofa.
Zainab's mom : Tell me beta !! I am here for you.
Zainab embraced her mother and with a trembling voice she said " Mom !! I am in Love "
Zainab'mom ( Sakina Bano) : Beta !! that's a good news.. Who is the lucky boy ..
Zainab : He is not a boy but a man..
Sakina is a bit surprised : " Is he in your college or in our colony. How old is he
Zainab : Mom !! His is 61 years old and he is my ex- boyfriend's father.
Sakina was awe stricken . She could not believe what her daughter was saying. She was speechless for a while and she was staring blankly at Zainab without any expressions on her face.
Zainab : Mom are you OK...
Sakina : You have fallen in love with a man who is 15 years elder than your father...
Zainab : Age is just a number mom,,, He is a gentleman and we gel together. We have been in this wonderful relationship for 6 months now. He loves and respects my feelings and I love him too. Our tastes and preferences are in sink with my tastes and preferences. Mom !! I am very happy with him and I want to Marry him and be his wife.
Sakina : What about his wife.
Zainab : She died of cancer 20 years back. He has spent all his youth for the upbringing of his son and then "JAB WE MET"we fell in LOVE.
Zainab narrated the entire story of how she met her lover and gave the full update to her mother obviously editing the intimate moments she enjoyed with him.
Sakina : Whats his name ??
Zainab : His name is Randeep Mehta..
Sakina got the jolt of her lifetime. She felt like a 440 Volt high voltage current has just passed her body. She turned cold with the shock.
Sakina : He is not from our community. We are not allowed to marry outside our community.
Zainab : Mom !! Love knows no age and no religion. Love is pure and chaste... We are happy with each other and that is all that matters. I don not want to spend my life with a man based on compromise and then cry and sulk all my life. I do not want to lead a dead person's life.
Zainab narrated the good and helpful nature of Mr, Mehta and how he helps the poor with food , medicine and money outside the temple. Also he spends his pension money on social work.
Sakina seemed interested that the man is indeed a good gentleman and seeing her daughter happy she too felt happy.
Sakina : How long will he live Beta !! he is 61 years old and you are just 20 years old. what will happen to you after he is gone.
Zainab : I will rather live a few years happily with a man I love and respect rather than a man all my life where the relationship would be based on compromise. It will be injustice to him as well as to me.
Sakina : How will we answer our community. You know that for small small things they create so much trouble. What will your father say
Zainab : Mother !! I stay with you and I have seen your tears when you cry all night long waiting for father who spends his evenings with his second wife and with other females. You have wasted your entire youth for a man who enjoyed your body initially and the result is me and when he was done with you, he dumped you for another female and this is fully justified in our community. This is MISOGYNY. Are we just men's properties which their Right hand possesses. Are we only fertile fields which our husbands have the right to plough anytime with or without our will and when they are bored with screwing us then another innocent female suffers the same fate and then another and then another. Are we mere Bloody Sexual objects meant to quench men's sexual lust. What is the difference then between us and a prostitute who sells her body for money.
From my childhood, I have seen that you dress up every evening and wait for father to come. Seldom he comes and then at night with tears in your beautiful eyes , you go to bed and sleep alone. Men have freedom to screw around with women and we just have to fret with the sexual needs of our body ...
And your worst fear is that you have to submit unconditionally to your husband and the day you demand your rights as a woman, then he might utter the 3 magical words giving you instant divorce. What happens to such women. They either beg or end up being prostitutes for a living. Men devour her body everyday. Is this the respect of woman in your great community. Utter Bull shit !!
And still the worst part is that suppose the husband understands his mistake ( to err is human ).. and if he wants his wife back then as per customs the woman has to sleep with another man before her husband can be with her. Many times this "Other man " is the lusty Father in law, or brother in law or the religious people of your community . Bloody bunch of sick perverts !!
Your husband OWNS you as his property and has the right to Beat you, scold you. Slavery still persists in your community. Don't you feel so !! This is 21st century and women are marching shoulder to shoulder with men and here you are still considered as having half the intellect of that of a man !! Most women in our community are confined to the four corners of the house with the job of raising kids one after another and doing household chores. For this they are denied education.
Tell me Mom frankly DO YOU WANT TO GIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE TO ME WHERE I WILL DIE EVERYDAY..
For the sale of your community , can you see me become the property of someone who after using my body will bring another woman...
Do you want me to lead the same life as you are leading !!
And one more thing.... Life is so colorful. Here this is a hot country... In this heat you cover yourself with that black veil from morn till night. Don't you feel suffocated. Being a woman .. do we have to endure this punishment !! Tell me mom..
So i want to be with a man with would love me exclusively. I would give him my body and my soul and he in turn would give me his body and soul. There should be no place of another woman. In the evening , I would dress up for him and he would appreciate my beauty and compliment me to make me happy. I would share my life ,my joy and my sorrows with him and I am happy to be his wife. I would celebrate the wonderful festivals. I will enjoy the good food, I will travel with him...
Zainab shared her temple visits which gives her so much peace and she can connect with the idol of the god so well. She enjoys the prasadam and the charity which they do every Tuesday and helping the poor makes her so happy....
Sakina was silent . She was patiently listening to her daughter. After Zainab had finished... there was pin drop silence in the room.
Zainab : Mother !! are you all right. You are stiff as a stone.
Suddenly, to Zainab's surprise , Sakina embraces her and burst in tears with loud sobbing.
Zainab was both surprised and emotionally moved.
she calmed down Sakina.
Sakina : Beta !! I am so happy that you have become so matured at this age. Love can do wonders.
Beta !! the fears , anxiety and pain which i had kept inside my heart all these years ,,, you have brought it out... Though from outside I look so religious but from inside I am a broken woman living a dead person's life praying god to take my life.
I was tensed that my lovely daughter would too lead a similar life and end up being a property of some man who would exercise complete control on her.
I feel happy that you are out of this hell and you are happy with the man of your choice. I support you and am always with you my angel .
JAA JEE LE TERI ZINDAGI ( GO LIVE YOUR LIFE )... Freedom and Happiness and peace beckons you.
It is a very touchy scene where the mother and daughter embraces each other and cries incessantly but the tears are of happiness !!
Sakina : when would you tell your father ??
Zainab : He has no time for us. He has dumped us and sends money monthly. I have little respect for such a man. Asking him is just a formality.
Sakina : when would you honor me as I want to meet your prince charming
Zainab : I will bring him for dinner this Saturday but he is a strict vegetarian...
Sakina : That's good . He is compassionate with animals too. Respect galore. Thats why I observed that of late you have stopped eating non veg food. Has he stopped you to take non veg food ??
Zainab : No mom !! he is a kind hearted person. I respect him and feel compassionate for animals and so I too have become a vegetarian.
Sakina : your prince charming seems to be an interesting person !! I feel excited to meet him.
Zainab blushed and mother and daughter embraced each other feeling happy for each other.
These thoughts in her mind was disturbing Zainab and she decided to share her thoughts with Mr, Mehta.
Mr, Mehta is a honest and straight forward man and he doesn't life to hide things when he knows that he is not doing anything wrong. He encouraged Zainab to speak out to her mom. He told her that anyways she has to tell her mom some day so why not today.
Zainab's mother had seen her in happy mood of late and she had asked her umpteen number of times the reason for her Happiness which Zainag had had never disclosed and always gave some other reasons. Today armed with the power of love and support from Mr, Mehta she decided to tell everything to her mom.
Zainab saw the opportunity when her mother was in good mood and she decided to vent out her heart to her.
Zainab : Mother !! I have something to say to you.
Saying this she held her mother's hand and both of them settled in the sofa.
Zainab's mom : Tell me beta !! I am here for you.
Zainab embraced her mother and with a trembling voice she said " Mom !! I am in Love "
Zainab'mom ( Sakina Bano) : Beta !! that's a good news.. Who is the lucky boy ..
Zainab : He is not a boy but a man..
Sakina is a bit surprised : " Is he in your college or in our colony. How old is he
Zainab : Mom !! His is 61 years old and he is my ex- boyfriend's father.
Sakina was awe stricken . She could not believe what her daughter was saying. She was speechless for a while and she was staring blankly at Zainab without any expressions on her face.
Zainab : Mom are you OK...
Sakina : You have fallen in love with a man who is 15 years elder than your father...
Zainab : Age is just a number mom,,, He is a gentleman and we gel together. We have been in this wonderful relationship for 6 months now. He loves and respects my feelings and I love him too. Our tastes and preferences are in sink with my tastes and preferences. Mom !! I am very happy with him and I want to Marry him and be his wife.
Sakina : What about his wife.
Zainab : She died of cancer 20 years back. He has spent all his youth for the upbringing of his son and then "JAB WE MET"we fell in LOVE.
Zainab narrated the entire story of how she met her lover and gave the full update to her mother obviously editing the intimate moments she enjoyed with him.
Sakina : Whats his name ??
Zainab : His name is Randeep Mehta..
Sakina got the jolt of her lifetime. She felt like a 440 Volt high voltage current has just passed her body. She turned cold with the shock.
Sakina : He is not from our community. We are not allowed to marry outside our community.
Zainab : Mom !! Love knows no age and no religion. Love is pure and chaste... We are happy with each other and that is all that matters. I don not want to spend my life with a man based on compromise and then cry and sulk all my life. I do not want to lead a dead person's life.
Zainab narrated the good and helpful nature of Mr, Mehta and how he helps the poor with food , medicine and money outside the temple. Also he spends his pension money on social work.
Sakina seemed interested that the man is indeed a good gentleman and seeing her daughter happy she too felt happy.
Sakina : How long will he live Beta !! he is 61 years old and you are just 20 years old. what will happen to you after he is gone.
Zainab : I will rather live a few years happily with a man I love and respect rather than a man all my life where the relationship would be based on compromise. It will be injustice to him as well as to me.
Sakina : How will we answer our community. You know that for small small things they create so much trouble. What will your father say
Zainab : Mother !! I stay with you and I have seen your tears when you cry all night long waiting for father who spends his evenings with his second wife and with other females. You have wasted your entire youth for a man who enjoyed your body initially and the result is me and when he was done with you, he dumped you for another female and this is fully justified in our community. This is MISOGYNY. Are we just men's properties which their Right hand possesses. Are we only fertile fields which our husbands have the right to plough anytime with or without our will and when they are bored with screwing us then another innocent female suffers the same fate and then another and then another. Are we mere Bloody Sexual objects meant to quench men's sexual lust. What is the difference then between us and a prostitute who sells her body for money.
From my childhood, I have seen that you dress up every evening and wait for father to come. Seldom he comes and then at night with tears in your beautiful eyes , you go to bed and sleep alone. Men have freedom to screw around with women and we just have to fret with the sexual needs of our body ...
And your worst fear is that you have to submit unconditionally to your husband and the day you demand your rights as a woman, then he might utter the 3 magical words giving you instant divorce. What happens to such women. They either beg or end up being prostitutes for a living. Men devour her body everyday. Is this the respect of woman in your great community. Utter Bull shit !!
And still the worst part is that suppose the husband understands his mistake ( to err is human ).. and if he wants his wife back then as per customs the woman has to sleep with another man before her husband can be with her. Many times this "Other man " is the lusty Father in law, or brother in law or the religious people of your community . Bloody bunch of sick perverts !!
Your husband OWNS you as his property and has the right to Beat you, scold you. Slavery still persists in your community. Don't you feel so !! This is 21st century and women are marching shoulder to shoulder with men and here you are still considered as having half the intellect of that of a man !! Most women in our community are confined to the four corners of the house with the job of raising kids one after another and doing household chores. For this they are denied education.
Tell me Mom frankly DO YOU WANT TO GIVE THIS KIND OF LIFE TO ME WHERE I WILL DIE EVERYDAY..
For the sale of your community , can you see me become the property of someone who after using my body will bring another woman...
Do you want me to lead the same life as you are leading !!
And one more thing.... Life is so colorful. Here this is a hot country... In this heat you cover yourself with that black veil from morn till night. Don't you feel suffocated. Being a woman .. do we have to endure this punishment !! Tell me mom..
So i want to be with a man with would love me exclusively. I would give him my body and my soul and he in turn would give me his body and soul. There should be no place of another woman. In the evening , I would dress up for him and he would appreciate my beauty and compliment me to make me happy. I would share my life ,my joy and my sorrows with him and I am happy to be his wife. I would celebrate the wonderful festivals. I will enjoy the good food, I will travel with him...
Zainab shared her temple visits which gives her so much peace and she can connect with the idol of the god so well. She enjoys the prasadam and the charity which they do every Tuesday and helping the poor makes her so happy....
Sakina was silent . She was patiently listening to her daughter. After Zainab had finished... there was pin drop silence in the room.
Zainab : Mother !! are you all right. You are stiff as a stone.
Suddenly, to Zainab's surprise , Sakina embraces her and burst in tears with loud sobbing.
Zainab was both surprised and emotionally moved.
she calmed down Sakina.
Sakina : Beta !! I am so happy that you have become so matured at this age. Love can do wonders.
Beta !! the fears , anxiety and pain which i had kept inside my heart all these years ,,, you have brought it out... Though from outside I look so religious but from inside I am a broken woman living a dead person's life praying god to take my life.
I was tensed that my lovely daughter would too lead a similar life and end up being a property of some man who would exercise complete control on her.
I feel happy that you are out of this hell and you are happy with the man of your choice. I support you and am always with you my angel .
JAA JEE LE TERI ZINDAGI ( GO LIVE YOUR LIFE )... Freedom and Happiness and peace beckons you.
It is a very touchy scene where the mother and daughter embraces each other and cries incessantly but the tears are of happiness !!
Sakina : when would you tell your father ??
Zainab : He has no time for us. He has dumped us and sends money monthly. I have little respect for such a man. Asking him is just a formality.
Sakina : when would you honor me as I want to meet your prince charming
Zainab : I will bring him for dinner this Saturday but he is a strict vegetarian...
Sakina : That's good . He is compassionate with animals too. Respect galore. Thats why I observed that of late you have stopped eating non veg food. Has he stopped you to take non veg food ??
Zainab : No mom !! he is a kind hearted person. I respect him and feel compassionate for animals and so I too have become a vegetarian.
Sakina : your prince charming seems to be an interesting person !! I feel excited to meet him.
Zainab blushed and mother and daughter embraced each other feeling happy for each other.