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

         Now Nair was in a hurry to wind up the narration. He said that after two agonising days he reached Mangalore. He knew what is hunger and thirst, which was totally  beyond his comprehension. The horror of lonely nights in the corner of Railway platforms still haunted him. On reaching Mangalore his fervent attempts to find an asylum paid result when he was engaged in a hotel for cleaning utensils. This provided him food and shelter. The owner was an Udupi Bhramin. He was benevolent and caring. Gradually Nair  won his confidence and became his most trusted assistant. He was given more responsibilities and soon attained the post of second in charge of the hotel.

       A few years passed smoothly. He aspired to make a visit to his family to know the welfare of his kid sister. But some thing, might be a sense of guilt, restrained him. And till now he could not fulfil that. Then once again fate had its own design on him. He had to leave the pasture for the sake of possessing his life’s partner with whom he had developed an affair, which he knew that the society would not approve.  He believed that their union was part of a destiny, and can be compared with any such event which you might have read in novels...contd....