Jayaprakash Raghavan Pillai

The Story She Had To Tell Jayaprakash Raghavan Pillai

A work of fiction that tells a story of a girl named Smitha who lives in India where her older sister is to be married. While Smitha is excited for her sister, she cannot feel but disgusted at the way women are treated in Indian society, particularly when it comes to marriage, where the father arranges things for her and pays a dowry to get the man to marry the woman. Smitha vows to defy this even though her mother says, "We can't change the customs society had been accustomed to for years. It takes a noble person to speak out against these evils." Smitha becomes just a noble person. She becomes an independent woman with her own career and source of income, and, therefore, she takes it upon herself to handle marriage proposals. When she finally meets the man she wishes to marry, they settle down in Malaysia and have a son named Bhasker and the story begins to follow his lifeThe second part of the story is interesting as it deals with the romantic love between Bhasker for an Irish girl who happens to board in the convent school close to his boarding school. This story focuses on the beautiful and wonderful aspects of life that occur even in the middle of the dark and painful moments. Besides, there is his younger brother who meets a tragic end in a plane crash whereas his mother survives from the flaming plane that explodes just after landing. The characters go through many ordeals and face many obstacles on their path to happiness but, in the end, they all find true love on their own terms.