Immediately Shyamala responded double quick:” I can’t be without my husband. I’ve a fantastic idea. I would like to continue my professional course in my father-in-law’s Medical College. Now it is November. Till June, let’s all emigrate to Pattinam (Shyamala wouldn’t have used the word, ‘emigrate “since it’s wrongly used.)
Baskar corrected her: Oh, you mean to shift our residence to Pattinam?”
“I can’t be without my husband.”Her blurted words turned their attention towards her and her words.
“Not even here hours passed by but she’s possessive mentality. How she is dotty about her husband!” Santhanam bantered and having heard his badinage, others joined his bantering.
“It’s a wonderful mentality that all ladies possess that as long as they are with their parents, they are penchant for their parents but once they got married, then, they are dotty about their husbands.” Her maternal uncle commented.
Shyamala’s cheeks were aflame with embarrassment and blush.
Shyamala bit her lip for her slip of the tongue. Shyamala, a svelte, and only the daughter of Santhanam-Baghyam, was an Intermediate student from Madurai University and she was an Anglo mania. By nature she was very sociable by which she had many boy friends in her college. Though her milieu was villagery, yet she had a penchant for urban life; ergo she stayed at her paternal uncle’s house in Madurai city. Whenever her parents wanted to see her, they used to come to the uncle’s house and stayed with her for three or four days. She was good at English as she had her education through English medium, studied under Indian School Certificate Examination and she offered Hindi in lieu of Tamil. So she can speak Tamil but not in writing. She won the prizes in Academic competitions but poor in sports. Her paternal uncle made arrangements for her marriage as soon as she completed her Intermediate course and she acquiesced with the marital proposal. Everything went on well till the marriage day. But once she received telepathic message, she was perplexed. So she wanted to discuss with her chum, Suhasini who convinced her not to rely upon such kind of negative ideas emerged from her mind out of her whims and fancy ideas.