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    Kungumam Gold IL'ite

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    Shama was sitting in front of her large ornate teak desk. There was a stack of white papers on one side and a laptop computer in the centre. She had just been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for literary achievement. All her children were well settled and leading a happy life. Two of her sons were doctors , one a heart surgeon and the other a plastic surgeon. She had 3 daughters , one had her own boutique , one was a singer and the youngest one was a passionate teacher . What more could she ask out of life? All her sons had houses nearby and came and visited her. Her daughters too.
    Even all this could not make shama rest in peace with herself. The lady who cooked and cleaned was just leaving after lighting the swami vilakku. The sandal fragrance of the incense sticks just wafted across the house stirring memories. Her late husband liked this fragrance very much.
    one other thing he liked was jasmines. A jasmine creeper just came up to the first floor window of her study. Not a day passed without him buying a strand of jasmine for her from the day of their marriage till the day he had been killed.
    the window of her study overlooked a huge garden filled with roses of all colors ,sizes and hues. One could see from the look of the garden that the thotakaran was a devoted one and an expert in his work.
     
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    Fortune 2
    shama's had been an arranged marriage . After marriage she had come to chennai. Her husband Kumar just lavished his love on her. They had their first son right in the first year of marriage. Kumar was working in a computer company and was just applying for some loan so that he could open a small company of his own like a call centre .
    On that fateful day after 10 years of marriage he had gone to withdraw some money from the ATM so that he could get some gift for his wife. He wanted to present her a silk saree for their 10 anniversary.
    but God had other plans for the happy family. Some gundas attacked the ATM just when Kumar was withdrawing the money. Both him and the ATM guard were shot dead on the spot.
    shama and the children were shocked to see the blood covered body of Kumar. It had all happened so suddenly. She did not want the youngest to even see all that. Shama in a daze went through all the required formalities.
    when everything was over she took the train to kumbakonam where her parents lived. It was in that train that shama got the diary that Nazim had left. Shama read the diary fully and literally cried at the end. When at kumbakonam they had a tough time trying to pull together on shama's father's pension. It was at that time that shama saw the short story competition in a magazine she had borrowed from a neighbor . Shama immediately entered and wrote the story of Nazim and also won the first prize. That was the start of shama the author who had now been nominated for the Pulitzer.
    From there began shama's story of rags to riches. Every story of hers won rave reviews and she had no difficulty in bringing up her 5 children.
    but today after so many years she looked back...........
    did all this wealth belong to her or was it Nazim 's???
     
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    She had not even bothered to change the name of Nazim in her hurry at that time.
    nazim now was busy with her beauty parlour work.she went for bridal make up and mehendi .she got a reasonable amount of money from the business after all the expenses.she was able to look after her son and herself decently now . But what about the future?
    when the story had been published Nazim was just married and dreaming of a happy life with her hubby. But that was not to be. Her husband read the story which was full of love details of Nazim with her neighbor boy. Both parents opposed the marriage as their social status did not match. In Nazim 's lover's place they wanted give and take girls (I.e) ones sister is married to another's brother. Finally the parents succeeded and Nazim accepted her fate. However her husband threw out a pregnant Nazim when she was 6 months pregnant.
    she delivered a beautiful baby boy. Now she operating from her friend's outhouse.
     
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    fortune part 4
    Nazim's friend Priya's husband worked from home. so he was at home most of the time. when Priya went out to buy vegetables or groceries, he visited Nazim's beauty parlour. what started as casual visits became slowly a nuisance to Nazim. Ram began making untoward approaches towards Nazim.
    Nazim did not like it and wanted to avoid Ram. she could not think of cheating her dear friend who had helped her in her adversity.Ram always seemed to know when Nazim was alone without customers.
    once he came in the night after priya and the kids had slept and tried to rape Nazim. that was the last straw.
    Nazim immediately started looking for a house for herself and her son.
    fortunately she found one where she could fit her home based beauty parlour also. she told her friend Priya that now that her beauty parlour was making profits she could afford the rent. she could not tell the truth to her friend.


     
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    fortune part 6
    one of the daughters of shama was having a difficult time with her husband. her inlaws were with her and did not want her to work. they did not want her to be a teacher because they considered it far below their dignity. their son was having his own business and they wanted her to leave her job and help him in the business. she however was passionate about teaching and did not want to give it up.
    this created discord in the family almost every day. At this time her husband forced her to attend a business conference where they could get ideas to improve their business. Aishwarya refused at first but later decided to go.
    Nazim's son saif also decided to attend the same conference so at he could start his own business.
     
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    Kungumam, Great going.. Awaiting for the nxt part..
     
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    It is really an nice story love to know more when will be the next post.
     

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