Why was the old Kaki hungry and not fed?
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Explanation:
Kaki had tremendous craving for food and hence when she was not satiated enough, her discontentment took a very ugly form. She used to go to the extent of licking the leftover food from the plates of guests. The inhuman treatment meted out to aged persons will definitely bring tears in the eyes of the readers.
Most often childhood returns during old-age. Old Kaki had no other concern other than satiating her craving taste buds and she had no other weapon other than weeping to gain the attraction of others towards her want. She had lost all her other senses including her eye-sight and was totally crippled. She kept lying down all the time and cried incessantly if ever anybody spoke anything against her wish or her meal was delayed or her meal was insufficient or if some eatable arrived at home but was yet to be served to her. Her cries and sobs were not ordinary; she would scream out, tearing her throat.
It was long since her husband had passed away. Her children had also died in their youthful years. Now she had none but a nephew. She had written off all her wealth in the name of that nephew. The nephew had made tall promises while getting all her wealth transferred in his name but those promises remained like the superfluous promotional talk of the salesmen of low-grade shops. Though her assets yielded an annual income of not less than 150-200 rupees, the old woman got hardly fed proper food. It was not easy to say whether the fault lay with her nephew Pandit Buddhiram or his wife Srimathi Roopa. Buddhiram was a gentleman, as long as there was no harm done to his cash box. Roopa was caustic by behavior but God-fearing. Kaki was more disgusted by Buddhiram’s nobility than by Roopa’s rude behaviour.
Buddhiram sometimes felt sorry for his abusive attitude. He thought that he had earned a respectable status only because of the wealth that he got from Kaki. He had no problem if things could be improved by a few verbal assurances and dry sympathy but his good intentions got suppressed by his fear of the extra expenditure. He would get enraged if the old woman started lamenting inside the house, when some respectable guest waited at the door. He would go inside and scold her. Youngsters have a natural dislike for the elderly and when they saw such an attitude of their parents too, they troubled the old lady all the more. One of them would pinch her and run away, while another would spit gargled water at her. Kaki would scream aloud but it was widely understood that she always cried to eat and hence her moans and pains were ignored by all. Only when Kaki angrily abused the children, would Roopa arrive at the spot. Though Kaki used her verbal weapon sparingly in the fear of attracting Roopa, she felt that was more useful than her cries to free herself from distress.
In the entire family, if anybody had little sympathy for the old woman, it was Buddhiram’s youngest daughter Laadli. She used to sit beside Kaki to munch her sweets to avoid her brothers snatching them fro
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