Nurungukal...2....contd...

   Nair continued his story ignoring my appeal to go home. He said that he was losing ground and his boat was not drifting as he wished. He was desperate and felt lonely.His adolescent resistances against the  evil designs of his step mother lead to more and more misery. There was no other option before him but to escape from the scene and that was what he did. Leaving his kid sister to the mercy of the step mother he left home to an unknown destination.  It was an hard and risky decision to abandon our kith and kin with whom we might have developed a close knit fabric of love and affection. Many a nostalgic event might have happened which can not be easily erased from our mind.  A few more drops fell from his eyes, which for a moment made me dump and I felt a lump descending through my throat.

    With an empty pocket he boarded a train to Mangalore.  He said that the amount of agony experienced by him in that journey would washout what ever sins he would do in his life time. Many a time he was thrown out by the railway staff for ticket less travelling. It was then he knew that the money mattered every thing. And since then he was in search of earning an income of his own......contd......