The Convicts

Harry potter-the boy who lived, made news for quite a long time. Here is a story about the lady who lived- real and hitherto untold. The story is old, very old- It is so old that no one knows the exact year of its beginning. It starts somewhere in mid 1950s. A little girl, 16 years old, lived in a small village in Maharashtra. Her name was Hira. She was fair, beautiful but really short- 4 feet 9 inches tall. She had failed 4 th class and had never travelled beyond her village. She was soon married off to a handsome, young boy named Nana. At this point, I should tell you a little about Nana. Nana grew up in a small village close to Hira’s. After his father’s death, his uncles took away all the farms. That is how Nana happened to go to Mumbai. He worked somewhere in Mumbai. I don’t know what exactly did he do for a living then. He stayed in a chawl-one room was all that he had to himself. He had a younger sister.  His sister and mother stayed back in village. He was 21 when he got ...