The Dhaka Times Desk If the face is black, many people despise it. Just because the color of the body is black, they are contemptible? I hope the readers will like this short story written about such a misconception of Jagat Samsar.
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My mother has already said that my wife looks black, my wife should not forget to go to my younger sister's room in the morning. My younger sister is 7 months pregnant. So that the daughter should not be neglected in this situation, the mother has brought the younger sister to her.
That morning, he woke up hearing the screams of his younger sister. I quickly went to my sister's room. I thought that the sister did not have any problem again. I went to the room and saw my younger sister saying to my wife.
"I didn't tell you not to come to my room in the morning. When I wake up in the morning and see your face, I am in a bad mood.”
I said to my younger sister, "What happened to you coming to your room? Besides, is there anything about my wife's appearance that makes you feel bad?”
The younger sister is silent without saying anything. Mother came from the other room and said, "Who is in a good mood when he wakes up in the morning and sees Alakshmi's face?" My daughter will have a baby in a few days. The baby looks more like the one the girls look like before they have a baby. I don't want my daughter's child to be like your wife. All the people in the world are not stupid like you who will marry a dark-skinned girl."
I looked at my sister without saying anything to my mother and said, “Our mother is not educated, so she believes in these superstitions. But you have studied up to Inter, do you have to believe these things?” Saying this, when I came to my room, my wife looked at me with a smile and said,
"What shall I cook for lunch today?"
I was very surprised to see his smiling face. A little while ago, the girl who was insulted by my mother and sister, still has a smile on her face! Maybe he is acting like a fake smile because he is in great pain.
I held my wife's hand and said, "You are very hurt by my mother and sister's words, aren't you?"
My wife laughed and said, “Absolutely not. I have been busy with these words for a long time.
I was surprised.
- I mean!
My wife then said, “Let me tell you three small incidents. While studying in college, I wanted to dress up like everyone else. So on the day of Pahela Falgun, I wore a saree like everyone else. I dressed like everyone else. When I left the house to go outside, the aunty next door glared at me and said "No matter how much makeup you put on, a black crow can never be a white buck!"
After that day I never wanted to dress up because black girls don't have to dress up.
Once I went to a restaurant with some girlfriends. I also wanted to take a selfie when my girlfriends were taking selfies at the same time. Then a friend told me, "If you are inside the selfie, the whole selfie will be ruined."
After that, I never wanted to take a selfie again. Because black girls don't take selfies…
When one after another suitors rejected me for marriage because of her black appearance, my own mother said, "I made a mistake by giving birth to this innocent girl." This innocent girl will not die.”
His father said, "This skull should not come before my eyes."
Where my own birth mother can call me Alakshmi, why should it hurt if my next mother calls me Alakshmi? Where my biological father does not want to see my face, I should not suffer if your sister does not want to see my face.”
After saying the words, my wife wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, but the smile was still on her face. I could understand how much pain was hidden in this smile.
A month and a half later, my sister's condition suddenly worsened. When taken to the doctor, the doctor said, "Caesarean must be performed now, otherwise the baby will be damaged." Before taking my sister to the operation theatre, the doctor asked to arrange O-Negative blood immediately. When we called the donor we had already talked to for blood, he said, why didn't we tell him earlier? He is currently outside Dhaka.
When we all were rushing for O-negative blood, my wife found out that she called me from home and said why not worry about the blood. Because his blood group is O-negative. He is coming to the hospital now. I left the phone and went to my mother. Mother is calling God and crying. I sat next to mother and said, "Mother, we have found a person to donate blood, but the problem is that the person is black." Should blood be taken from the body of black people? What if the baby is black later?”
Mother looked at me with angry eyes and said, what is the difference between black people and fair people in blood? Just as fair people's blood is red, black people's blood is also red. Besides, who told you the nonsense that if blood is taken from the body of a black person, the baby will be black?"
I quietly left in front of my mother without saying anything. The next morning I noticed my mother sitting with my niece in her lap. The sister is lying on the next bed. I said to my mother with a smile.
"Well, mother, if there is no difference between fair and black in the blood, why is there so much difference in the skin? Black people don't have a problem taking blood in their bodies, but why do you get upset when you see the face of black people? Mother should never consider a person by the skin but the person inside the skin should be considered. Even after all your insults, my wife did not hold any anger or bitterness in her heart, instead she saved my sister with her own blood at the time of danger."
Mother is silent after listening to me. I then said to the younger sister who was lying next to me, "Never insult the person who helped you save you after enduring so many insults, sister, even if you cannot respect him." Suddenly I noticed my wife standing next to the door.
The younger sister saw my wife and said, 'Bhabhi, why are you standing far away? Come and hug my girl. And listen to my daughter's name but you have to fix it."
As soon as I took the baby in my arms, my wife cried. Seeing my wife's cry, my mother and sister also cried. I came out of the cabin without standing any more to the joyous union of mothers and daughters' cries. Unknowingly, a tear has accumulated in my eyes.
# [text and image collected from Facebook]
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