Now It Is Your Turn

-Na Ki Prasad

To talk about the ills of others was the favourite past-time of Akilandam. She was aware of everything that happens in the families of her street. To tell the truth, she was paying the maidservant only for this purpose.

For the past one month, she felt as if her head would burst out! The reason for this was that she got no news of the new tenant, Sundari who had come to her first floor. Like classified information everything about her was under lock and key. When the maidservant could not do anything, she used another strategy. She sent her son to Sundari for tuition.

After one week...........

‘Aunty! Are you the second wife of your husband?’ ‘And....Yes! Is your elder son living separately in the same town’, Sundari was asking question after question........And Akilandam was about to cry......!