First child to a couple after more than a decade of their marriage. Hence quite a ladla for them as well as for their family. I was followed with my two younger brothers, but I was sure I was some one special for my parents. That was apparent from their behaviours. Being like any religious couple from India, they believed that I was the 'gift' from the various gods and goddesses they have worshipped for a child during those traumatised decade. In those times condition of a lady after more than a decade of marriage and not bearing child was much worse than an abandoned corpse. And that was the condition of my mother then in the family and as well in the prevailing Society. Apart from several verbal abuses and taunts all throughout those traumatised years, there was a proposal for a second marriage for my father, so that family line could be maintained. Thanks to my father, he resisted all those pressures and stood by my mother as far as possible. That was some thing great that helped my mother to endure those hell of the years.
I was told that after my birth my father got a new and better job and that add to my reputation of being a good omen for my parents and their family. That is why I was always remained some thing special for my mother till she left for her heavenly abode recently.
