Mannu's Eyes Speak Volumes !!

Mannu's Eyes Speak Volumes !!

The social importance of having a son is what led to the cruel act of Ratansingh ...plucking the tiny toddler from his mother;s embrace !

A mother's heart is wailing here ...holding her son's tiny hand ...watching him silently throughout his suffering hours in the night ...her soul is sobbing uncontrollably ...why ...why this curse? ...being a mother is a sin?

...' the cruel fate is trying to grab him from me ...putting off the glow of my eyes permanently, they are trying to lighten up their house with my funeral pyre ,...in the name of hierarchy!...Cant' live without Mannu...can't die leaving Abhimanyu'...with lifeless eyes, glaring into the dark night filled with void ...Ganga is thinking ...thinking about her past ...her son's foregone future ...the soul separating from her body ..

Suddenly she heard...a sweet voice...as if coming from the bottom of her heart..a small word.. MAAA !'...

With a quick ...sharp ...sudden movement she turned towards Mannu and looked in to his eyes...,those little big eyes are conveying ...the whole meaning of a cyclic birth...the attachments that come with it and the detachments one should develop to make life sustainable...in short, the whole philosophy of life!

She felt as if they are saying---.''.Maa...why are you worrying? I have been with you before my birth ... ...when I was in your womb like a tiny particle ...you visualised me with your soul's eye... sways in your thoughts ...swings in your smiles and hopes in your heart ! ...then I was not in this visible world ...but lived in your imaginary universe only !

Was I not with you then ?! ...

Maa...after birth ...for all these few years ... I have been with you...played in your lap...smiled when you were happy...often wiped your tears when you cried , with my tender fingers ...tagging on to you all through the bad and good moments ,... filled your whole being with my thoughts I know, as long as you live ...you want to be with me! I lived with you so long and got the love ...enough for me for this life! ...

Why are you crying Maa...here I am losing my canopy of love, protection and solace ! I have to cry ...but ...but life is demanding ...commanding me to move away from you ! I am the loser Maa... yes I agree, my gains and losses are yours only ...they have an impact on you with double effect... ... I know... I know ...you lost everything , lost the meaning of your life itself ...but ...but one day it is bound to happen... our separation.. for good or bad ...whether in the full tenure of my life in your shadow, or in the forcibly curtailed association, seemingly destined as of now !..

. I existed only in your thoughts before my birth...but now I shall always live in your heart and your thoughts as well ! Always within you ...always alluring you ...a part of you ... a past participle / particle of you !!...just like looked , lost !!!

But I know, I am the reason for your happiness and I am the reason for your sorrow! Sorry,Maa!!"

@Seetha i am completely😭 reading your post Its so heart touching the way you described the emotions of a mother and her child who cannot speak all these words to her but his eyes and gestures speaks volumes like he knows everything and he is consoling his mother .Mannu has always been strength of his mother , her courage , her hope With his tiny hands he has always wiped her tears Listened to her pain when no else was there No matter he could not understand why she was crying but he would bring smile on her face with his smile and a warm hug and kiss The cruel world consisting of Ratan Singh and his parents in lust for having a son all for themselves are once again about to separate a child from his mother What a tragedy 😭The immense pain Ganga is going through now and little Mannu will go through when he will be away from his mother , when he will be forcefully distanced from those sweet lullabys , the warm full of love lap , the soft caring hands which used to feed him of his mother/... both are heart wrenching .😭

Very beautiful post Seetha!! Very nicely written..

Seetha your writing and Manu's somber story combined together is so touchy and heart rending. Really want that he recuperates fast and begins a normal life in the patronage of his loving parents. Hope the CVs have planned for a happy script as far as this character is concerned. They should not dilly dally anymore and weaken our heart by giving his custody to Rat Singh.

seetha its very heart touching, the feelings of a mother and a child is very well expressed here. Its because of mannu our favourite pair Jagan(Srishank) united, i don't know why i cried when i read this but still its very painful😭. "Can't live without Mannu, can't die leaving Abhimanyu", "I am the reason for your happiness and i am the reason for your sorrows... sorry maa" this gives the current message of balika vadhu, that two sentences made me cry more😭.

Also i must appreciate sargun here because she had acted so well that its her real situation like, it made me even more painful😭 and thanks seetha for this posting.

@Seetha Very touching post😭You described Mannu and his mother's emotions so beautifully This all is too heart wrenching 😭

Seetha your writing is the mirror of the longing of society for a male child. Unfortunately the woman folk have contributed their own share in cementing this desire. The separation of a child particularly under these trying circumstances is extremely painful. However our philosophy of looking at life to the prism of previous birth, detachment, fate etc help us in withstanding such problems. I am aware it is quite painful for a mother to undergo such trauma, however the kind of perseverance that a woman have demonstrated over the ages it would be possible to cope up with this challenge. Her belief in almighty would hep smoothen the process .

Originally posted by: sidra08

@Seetha i am completely😭 reading your post Its so heart touching the way you described the emotions of a mother and her child who cannot speak all these words to her but his eyes and gestures speaks volumes like he knows everything and he is consoling his mother .Mannu has always been strength of his mother , her courage , her hope With his tiny hands he has always wiped her tears Listened to her pain when no else was there No matter he could not understand why she was crying but he would bring smile on her face with his smile and a warm hug and kiss The cruel world consisting of Ratan Singh and his parents in lust for having a son all for themselves are once again about to separate a child from his mother What a tragedy 😭The immense pain Ganga is going through now and little Mannu will go through when he will be away from his mother , when he will be forcefully distanced from those sweet lullabys , the warm full of love lap , the soft caring hands which used to feed him of his mother/... both are heart wrenching .😭

Sidra ...Research shows that without a secure motherly attachment, children's bodies activate a stress reaction to unexpected events...it is a well known psychological factor !

With the cutting of the umbilical cord, physical attachment to our mothers ends ...and emotional and psychological attachment begins. While the first attachment provides everything we need to thrive inside the womb, many psychologists believe the second attachment provides the psychological foundation and maybe even the social and physical buffer we need to thrive in this brutish world!

A chid needs the tender care of it's mother ...depriving him from that solace is nothing but inhuman ...but societal norms are encouraging such inhuman acts to safeguard the male hierarchy !---which is condemnable !

Beautiful and sentimental piece of writing Seetha ! expressing a mother's and child's emotions, a peek into their interior life !
Totally agree, Mannu's eyes speak volumes !

"he soul separating from her body .."

"my gains and losses are yours only"

"am the reason for your happiness and I am the reason for your sorrow!

These lines really touched me ! You have verbally penned down Ganga's thoughts, but what's much more striking is Mannu's heart-warming feelings, kids may not speak but they have an ocean of unspoken feelings that they express through eyes.

You are an amazing poetic writer.