Nammu and her unlimited dreams
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Nammu love to sing and write her own dairy. She used to sing Bengali songs and write her tidbits in a paper. She love animals but she was afraid of water. She used to say that she couldn't be a friend of watery resources. She used to watch varieties of movies as she had art in her soul. But the tragedy of society and dogmas didn't let her be free. She had to crush her unspoken dreams of singing in front of camera when she was given a sewing machines instead of Mike. She was told not to ruin the prestige of her forefather folks, letting her to control her footsteps out of the door. She had to tired her bones infront of sewing machine to do tailoring which she didn't prefer too.
But one day she said to her father that she can't do tailoring and suppress her whims. She will practice her singing but she won't be doing handwork embroidery as she had no heart in it. Her straight forward nature let grandfather to ponder and nodded her in a sombre tone of yes.
Draped in a long kurta and long plaits nammu had no such an urge in cooking department, she love eating ladies finger and fish with a thick gravy and fish prawns. She had always let herself before her five sisters and brother.
She knew the consequences of stuffs and used to be cautious about that issues.
Her senior sister was studying science and she used to post martum the legs of frogs and cockroaches infront of Nammu. And nammu starts to puke infront of her as she couldn't see the pain of animals. Once in a while she was told to cut off the leg of frog in one practical session of science, and she fainted.
This practical session was the time to decide whether Nammu can join the higher studies in Science or not. But she couldn't handle that torture so she planned to pursue humanities taking Political Science as a career. She and her school child friends had to depart on their different ways aa they were taking Science Subject. Her friends although tried to coax her that they will do practical of her, they will make drawings of Animals too but Nammu decline all this as she wanted to stand in her own feet.
She planned to become a minister or atleast a politician. She and her cousin sister were in the same class which creates rivalry in between. The laughing matter was both of them were toppers and her cousin sister was envy of her. She started taunting Nammu as a sympathetic figure as she lost her friends in science section. She was in tears listening her own cousin sister bad words. But she was saved by her own friends. All friends were there in next classroom except Shrawan. He was in a same class and he had chosen humanity just to pass his grades. He told all of his friends to gather on tiffin time and he told about the taunts and tears of Nammu. And all her friends troop went to her Nammu classroom and warned her not to touch the hair of her. This brought the roughness and competition between two sisters as popularity was the most important thing at that time. In furiousness, her cousin sister challenged her to top the college from Humanity faculty as she was the roll number one student, mean first topper badge in her student. Nammu silently accepted the challenge.
Nammu and her friends never give upon eachother in her tough time of seclusion. Her friends used to gather in tiffin time for sharing tiffins, they came into Nammu house for grandmother stories. Near examination time they support Nammu in bringing their English note copies. Finally, big day happens in Nammu's life whatever challenges her cousin sister set her in. She aced in. She topped the college badge bringing 78 percentage in Humanity Badge. Nerd Nammu hit this game.
She brings the affidavit of colorful wings in her feather. She became the proud of her family until and unless the things turned into hodgepodge.
to be continued...
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