झोला / jhola / by Krishna Dharabasi

Description

Kanchi (Garima Panta) is a young woman who was married to an old husband who is 40 years elder than Garima. At present, Kanchi’s husband is ill because of his old age and finally dies. Now, as per the social rules and regulation, Kanchi had to go to Sati where she should burn herself with her husband’s deceased body. But, fate is on her side and she manages to survive. She starts to live in the cave of a nearby jungle. Ghanashyam, being lonely in the absence of his loving mother, visits the jungle and finds his mother hiding in the cave. Kanchi unites with her son but they are unable to stay in the same society because the society people would kill the women even though they have survived Sati in any means. Ghanashyam makes a plan of leaving the village and getting settled in another place so that they could make a new beginning. He asks his mother to stay in the jungle and goes home to bring their belongings.Then he went to house and told his aunt everything that happened in jungle and asked her to give some food and clothes for his mother. Later, Kanchi’s brother-in-law and his wife join and assist them to leave the village. As Kanchi with Ghanashyam are going to leave the village, they witness a woman, who is to be Sati but couldn’t do so and runs away, being killed by the people of the funeral.