Chitevarchya Kalya - Vasant Gaikwad

‘चितेवरच्या कळ्या..!’ एका ‘ती’ची जीवनकहाणी – दैनंदिन जीवनातलं प्रत्येक पान अमानुष कृत्यांनी-आक्रोशानं-वेदनेनं भरलेलं – नवर्‍याकडून रोज रात्री होणारा जबरदस्तीचा संभोग - तिला होणार्‍या असाहाय्य वेदना - तिच्या सख्ख्या भावोजींबरोबरच्या नसलेल्या; परंतु नणंदेने निर्माण केलेल्या संशयामुळे होणारी बेदम मारहाण – याला विरोध करूनही दुपटीनं सहन करावा लागणारा छळ -गरोदरपणाच्या काळात तिच्या पोटावर बसणारा मार – आतल्या गर्भाची काळजी – सासू, नवरा, दीर, नणंद यांकडून फक्त हुंड्यासाठी होणारा अमानुष छळ व सासर्‍यांची काहीही न करू शकणारी हतबलता – माहेरी मोठं कुटुंब असूनही शेवटच्या क्षणी भोगावा लागलेला एकांतवास - भीषण नि भयानक घटना कशा भोगल्या? कशा सहन केल्या? रानटी माणसांमध्ये जगता जगता जीवन ज्योत मालवल्यावर समाज म्हणे हा तर ‘हुंडाबळी’’ , परंतु, याने हुंडा मिळाला? याच अनुत्तरीत प्रश्नांमध्ये राख झालेली ती’ व तिच्यासारख्याच ‘चितेवरच्या कळ्या..!’ ‘CHITEVARCHYA KALYA..!’ THE LIFE STORY OF A ‘SHE’ – EVERY PAGE OF HER DAILY LIFE IS FILLED WITH INHUMAN ACTS-ANGER-PAIN – FORCED INTERCOURSE BY HER HUSBAND EVERY NIGHT – THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN SHE SUFFERS – THE BRUTAL BEATINGS BY HER SISTER-IN-LAW ON A BASELESS SUSPICION ABOUT HER ILLICIT RELATION WITH HER BROTHER-IN-LAW;– THE TORTURE SHE HAS TO ENDURE DOUBLY DESPITE OPPOSING IT – THE THRASHING THAT HIT HER STOMACH DURING PREGNANCY – THE WORRY ABOUT THE UNBORN BABY – THE MERCILESS TORTURE BY HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, HUSBAND, BROTHER-IN-LAW, SISTER-IN-LAW JUST FOR DOWRY AND THE POWERLESSNESS OF HER FATHER- IN-LAW WHO CAN’T REPRIMAND THEM – THE LONELINESS SHE HAS TO ENDURE IN HER LAST MOMENTS DESPITE HAVING A LARGE MATERNAL FAMILY – HOW DID SHE SUSTAIN THE TERRIBLE AND TERRIFYING EVENTS? – HOW DID SHE TOLERATE IT? – AFTER LIVING AMONG SAVAGES, THE SOCIETY WOULD SAY, ‘THIS IS A ‘DOWRY SACRIFICE’’ – BUT, DID THEY GET DOWRY? IN THESE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, SHE AND THE CHITEVARCHYA KALYA LIKE HER, TURNED TO ASHES..