Long long ago...almost more than half a century back...
There was a young girl named Saraswati who was married to a widower named Vishwanath...
He was a subdued gentleman who was dominated by his wife...
Saraswati was an independent woman who was headmistress of a girls school back then...
Vishwanath also gave in to Saraswati's nature since he was super conscious to make this second marriage work...
They had 3 sons and a daughter....
Saraswati resigned from the school to look after the kids by then....
Their marriage was full of stressful dominance which lead to tension between them...
Saraswati and Vishwanath hardly spoke with each other in spite of parenting together 4 kids under a single roof...
The kids slowly settled down and moved out of the house by getting married...
Elder son shifted to Tarapur by after joining BARC
Second son did not study much and managed somehow by doing odd jobs with his wife and settled in a rented house around the outskirts of the city....
The younger Son had a good job at ONGC, married his office colleague and stayed at his in-law's place to look after her ailing father
The youngest daughter eloped with the love of her life to get married and settle for good....
It so happened that due to some goof up back then, his birth date in office records was noted as 1912 instead of 1921...
Due to this he had to retire 9 years early than his actual retirement age....
Saraswati made his life hell by constantly pestering him about this stupidity that he failed to rectify and nagged him incessantly regarding the same...
Bugged with this Vishwanath left home and moved to stay with his eldest son at Tarapur....
Saraswati had a major fear of staying alone...
Hence she moved on to her second son, stayed there for a couple of years, but couldn't gel well in their meagre earnings and hand to mouth situation...
By then Vishwanath had passed away and the eldest son held Saraswati responsible for the untimely death of his father and chose to break all contacts with her....
She couldn't move to her youngest son since he was still staying at his in-law's home....
Saraswati then went to live with her elder brother who stayed in a chawl at Kurla...
He was a unmarried and living on pension with no one to call his own...
Some years went past...both of them started falling ill
Unable to support each other in sickness they decided to make a few arrangements...
The brother shifted himself to an old age home at lonavala
He asked Saraswati to join him there, however she refused....
She contacted her youngest daughter with whom she had severed relations long back for marrying with someone out of caste....
She asked this daughter to take her home....
The daughter was very affluent, well settled but now a widow with a divorcee daughter....
Now there are three women in this house....
90 year old Saraswati who refuses to let go of her dominating nature and nagging habit....
Her daughter is trying to struggle with the acceptance of her own daughter's failed marriage and keeping up with the every fluctuating mood swings of her ailing mother....
Saraswati's grand daughter is exploring her newly acquired single status by dating and trying to find her ground in the professional field...
It's a house of three women trying to find something missing in their own lives trying to accommodate each other's existence with acceptance and interpersonal struggles....
Surprisingly all three of them have no where to go but stay put with what destiny has written for then in the current situation....
Three generations with challenging situations...
All three of them have their own little stories that have made up this tale find roots after being uprooted by fate as individuals...
#notsotinytales
- Prajakta Sathe
There was a young girl named Saraswati who was married to a widower named Vishwanath...
He was a subdued gentleman who was dominated by his wife...
Saraswati was an independent woman who was headmistress of a girls school back then...
Vishwanath also gave in to Saraswati's nature since he was super conscious to make this second marriage work...
They had 3 sons and a daughter....
Saraswati resigned from the school to look after the kids by then....
Their marriage was full of stressful dominance which lead to tension between them...
Saraswati and Vishwanath hardly spoke with each other in spite of parenting together 4 kids under a single roof...
The kids slowly settled down and moved out of the house by getting married...
Elder son shifted to Tarapur by after joining BARC
Second son did not study much and managed somehow by doing odd jobs with his wife and settled in a rented house around the outskirts of the city....
The younger Son had a good job at ONGC, married his office colleague and stayed at his in-law's place to look after her ailing father
The youngest daughter eloped with the love of her life to get married and settle for good....
It so happened that due to some goof up back then, his birth date in office records was noted as 1912 instead of 1921...
Due to this he had to retire 9 years early than his actual retirement age....
Saraswati made his life hell by constantly pestering him about this stupidity that he failed to rectify and nagged him incessantly regarding the same...
Bugged with this Vishwanath left home and moved to stay with his eldest son at Tarapur....
Saraswati had a major fear of staying alone...
Hence she moved on to her second son, stayed there for a couple of years, but couldn't gel well in their meagre earnings and hand to mouth situation...
By then Vishwanath had passed away and the eldest son held Saraswati responsible for the untimely death of his father and chose to break all contacts with her....
She couldn't move to her youngest son since he was still staying at his in-law's home....
Saraswati then went to live with her elder brother who stayed in a chawl at Kurla...
He was a unmarried and living on pension with no one to call his own...
Some years went past...both of them started falling ill
Unable to support each other in sickness they decided to make a few arrangements...
The brother shifted himself to an old age home at lonavala
He asked Saraswati to join him there, however she refused....
She contacted her youngest daughter with whom she had severed relations long back for marrying with someone out of caste....
She asked this daughter to take her home....
The daughter was very affluent, well settled but now a widow with a divorcee daughter....
Now there are three women in this house....
90 year old Saraswati who refuses to let go of her dominating nature and nagging habit....
Her daughter is trying to struggle with the acceptance of her own daughter's failed marriage and keeping up with the every fluctuating mood swings of her ailing mother....
Saraswati's grand daughter is exploring her newly acquired single status by dating and trying to find her ground in the professional field...
It's a house of three women trying to find something missing in their own lives trying to accommodate each other's existence with acceptance and interpersonal struggles....
Surprisingly all three of them have no where to go but stay put with what destiny has written for then in the current situation....
Three generations with challenging situations...
All three of them have their own little stories that have made up this tale find roots after being uprooted by fate as individuals...
#notsotinytales
- Prajakta Sathe
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