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Here is my imaginative story. Hope you may spend a few minutes and response it.
Joint Account
Mohan: What do you think about ‘a bad man is better than a bad name’, Suman?
Suman: It may be somehow true but not forever.
Mohan: What do you want to say?
Suman: If human society runs with rules and regulation, and every human being has moral strength, it’s true. If not, it’s just a proverb.
Mohan: What……?
Suman: Haven’t you seen the people who were justified as corrupted and sentenced to prisons for years, but in their release from the prisons, their well-wishers arrived at the prison gate to welcome them with heavy garlands which seemed difficult to bear by their neck. Then they were living prestigious life. Many people go to their homes and seem as if they were the key person of the nation.
Suman: It may be somehow true but not forever.
Mohan: What do you want to say?
Suman: If human society runs with rules and regulation, and every human being has moral strength, it’s true. If not, it’s just a proverb.
Mohan: What……?
Suman: Haven’t you seen the people who were justified as corrupted and sentenced to prisons for years, but in their release from the prisons, their well-wishers arrived at the prison gate to welcome them with heavy garlands which seemed difficult to bear by their neck. Then they were living prestigious life. Many people go to their homes and seem as if they were the key person of the nation.
Suman: Exactly. It’s the matter of so called big brother in Nepal. Haven’t you heard about similar type of personal relation that was related to the joint account of father –in-law and son-in law story that happened a decade back in Chitwan in 2007? They had good relationship to each other. Everyone in their society used to envy seeing their relationship. They seemed to be like Shravan Kumar and his blind parents. Only the difference was that they were parents and their only son, Shravan but the matter of the story was slightly different. Here the relationship was of law but theirs was natural. However, their devotion and sacrifice didn’t have any worth due to time beings. In general, truth triumphs in the end, but what might be there. It had been a matter of talking sounded like rumor.
Mohan: Not yet. Who were they?
Suman: They were Binod, his father-in law and his brother-in law. 10 years back from the date, one day while Binod (a man in his early forties) was having his dinner with his family in his kitchen in Kathmandu, cell phone rang and received. It was the phone from his brother –in- law (Hari) who was a bachelor level student of Kathmandu University. He was good at his study and talent too. He had robust body, short black and curly hair and running in his mid-twenties. He was the second last child of his parents among seven .While phoning he asked to refund Rs 26 lacks he borrowed from his father. Binod seemed confused. ‘What…?’ he said.
Mohan: Then…?
Suman: What a disgusting conversation was on cell phone! “Don’t pretend” Hari said. “You have to refund the amount that you have borrowed with my father as soon as possible. I’m in need of money to run a business.” Binod said nothing but said to Hari, “Come to my flat then we will talk about the matter”. Hari said, “I don’t know anything, I need only the money.” Binod said “A spoken word from a mouth and a bullet that is off from the gun never returns. Take passion”. The day after tomorrow of the date was the special day, Teej for Hindus women. Cell phone was off.
Mohan: What did Binod do afterwards?
Suman: They were Binod, his father-in law and his brother-in law. 10 years back from the date, one day while Binod (a man in his early forties) was having his dinner with his family in his kitchen in Kathmandu, cell phone rang and received. It was the phone from his brother –in- law (Hari) who was a bachelor level student of Kathmandu University. He was good at his study and talent too. He had robust body, short black and curly hair and running in his mid-twenties. He was the second last child of his parents among seven .While phoning he asked to refund Rs 26 lacks he borrowed from his father. Binod seemed confused. ‘What…?’ he said.
Mohan: Then…?
Suman: What a disgusting conversation was on cell phone! “Don’t pretend” Hari said. “You have to refund the amount that you have borrowed with my father as soon as possible. I’m in need of money to run a business.” Binod said nothing but said to Hari, “Come to my flat then we will talk about the matter”. Hari said, “I don’t know anything, I need only the money.” Binod said “A spoken word from a mouth and a bullet that is off from the gun never returns. Take passion”. The day after tomorrow of the date was the special day, Teej for Hindus women. Cell phone was off.
Mohan: What did Binod do afterwards?
Suman: Binod said to his wife, Binita, “What’s the matter? What does your brother say?” She said, “I’ve seen some bank vouchers deposited on your bank account when I was in mourning period of my beloved father in Chitwan. I asked you about it. I have made clear about it to my mother. May be he’s talking about that.” Oh God, (holding his head with his two hands) said, “What’s the bank and its account no? I’ll go to the bank and find about the reality.”
Mohan: There might be misunderstanding. Hari’s doubt might not be wrong if there were bank vouchers. Without breezing, no leaf moves. What may be the cause of it? What did Binod do then?
Mohan: There might be misunderstanding. Hari’s doubt might not be wrong if there were bank vouchers. Without breezing, no leaf moves. What may be the cause of it? What did Binod do then?
Suman: Next day Binod went to the NCC bank at Bagbazar in Kathmandu.Then he said to a lady in a counter, “Could you please give me the statement of this account?” After checking the account, she said, “It’s the joint account. You have to go to Chitwan to take the statement.” Then he added, “Please provide me the statement. It’s too urgent. This account belongs to me and my father –in-law, who is no more with us. His son and wife are talking about the amount. They are questioning about this amount in this account” “If so, it needs certain amount for the statement.” she said. “No matter for it. I only need the statement.” He replied. After 10 minutes of waiting, Binod got the statement and thanked her a lot. But she didn’t take any charge of it. After reading the statement, he gasped and said, “Thanks God. Nothing wrong with it. My father –in- law deposited and withdrew amount himself. It must clear their doubt.” He returned back to his flat and showed the statement to his spouse. She felt happy. He phoned Hari and asked him to come but he said he was busy. Leaving their three kids 10, 3, and 2 years old respectively on the day of Teej, Binita and Binod went to Banepa on a motorbike and met Hari at a café where they had a cup of coffee. When they showed the bank statement, he couldn’t believe and said it might be fraud too. Binita felt very sad remembering the past days how she used to take care of him. Although mother gave him birth, she used to bathe him, manage tiffin for school and do everything for him. During their father sickness, he used to come to see only but she had to take care of her father and her own small kids who were only two and three years old. When there was no one to take care of their sick father she asked her father and mother to come in Kathmandu for treatment. Binita didn’t care of her business. She was worried about her father’s health. She dazzled everyone with her devotion. Even her husband did what he had to do. Her sisters and brothers who were abroad used to say, “You are not only brother-in-law, you’re our real brother. You are great and so on.”
Mohan: What was mother’s response?
Suman: Great surprise. She said, “Chhori, you have taken money but you need not return.” One day at about 9:30 pm she telephoned and scolded to her son-in-law.
Mohan: How did Binod react?
Suman: Binod didn’t care about it remembering the lord Mahadev in the Swasthanikatha. He didn’t go to receive Tika at Dashain to his family at Binita’s maternal home. He found himself as Mahadev. Only the difference was that Mahadeva was insulted by father-in-law but here by brother-in-law and mother-in-law. But it was difficult for his wife Binita. If Binod were not tolerated, they could not see their sister and daughter, Binita. According to him, in many days at night she was afraid and depressed too. He used to convince her remembering the Mahadeva. Their sisters and brothers’ flattering from abroad couldn’t last long. Binita and her husband effort remained useless when their beloved father passed away. They did not miss only their father or father-in-law but also their business as well as family relationship too. They were living in hardship. But they were optimist.
Mohan: Why was about 26 lacs vouchers found at Hari’s home?
Suman: Five years back from the happening, Binod’s father-in-law opened a joint account. Then he operated this account himself. He deposited money and withdrew himself. He had the cheque and every detail of the bank. He was a social worker too. He might have thought if Binod had had sound bank account, he wouldn’t have had any problem for abroad. Binod didn’t have any idea except he signed on a bank account opening document. The relation couldn’t be relation due to his demise in his late fifties, then Binita remained deserted from her siblings and mother as well.
Mohan: Why was about 26 lacs vouchers found at Hari’s home?
Suman: Five years back from the happening, Binod’s father-in-law opened a joint account. Then he operated this account himself. He deposited money and withdrew himself. He had the cheque and every detail of the bank. He was a social worker too. He might have thought if Binod had had sound bank account, he wouldn’t have had any problem for abroad. Binod didn’t have any idea except he signed on a bank account opening document. The relation couldn’t be relation due to his demise in his late fifties, then Binita remained deserted from her siblings and mother as well.
Mohan: It was serious, wasn’t it?
Suman: Indeed, yes. Do you know what Binod said? He gave the reference from the holy Gita. He said, “According to Gita, the relation is just an illusion but it’s for the continuation of human society. Everyone gets birth alone and passes away alone too. To worry about the members of family and other is the stupidity of human beings.” Although they lost everything, they remained mute thinking that only the culprits get punishment after the death. Later Binod’s couple got surprised when they knew about the story of the amount from the villagers and kiths and kins. They thought even a mother could not be true mother only giving a birth of a baby. To be a true mother, she had to be fair but for this couple she couldn’t be.
Mohan: What a great couple they were. How would you feel if you were in Binod’s position?
Suman: I might have been shattered. It’s a naked example of loss of humanism and spiritualism.
Suman: I might have been shattered. It’s a naked example of loss of humanism and spiritualism.
Mohan: If Binod were like her own brothers, sisters and mother, she could suicide. It was Binod who convinced her and let her live her life normally.
Suman: What about Binita?
Mohan: She was strong, helpful and a little bit stubborn. She was all in all when she was at her maternal home. She used to do everything for them from kitchen to school. Even later she was helping them from her side. Her sisters and brothers used to love but she had been dirt in every sibling’s eyes after the demise of her beloved father.
Suman: Our myths are not only imaginative. They are vivid and lively to this contemporary society. What a greatness Binita had. Due to her father’s insult of her husband, Parbati died in Yangya but next victim of mother’s, sisters and brothers was struggling to the modern society. Moreover, the couple were strong and could tolerate every insult of hardship easily. They could compare the present happening comparing to the Hindu myths. They used to say that living in hardship is the best opportunity to know what the real life is like the life that Malini wished to live in a hut rather than living in the palace. Similarly, they remembered Harishchandra, the most generous king of Ayodhya, who had to work as Chandal but didn’t wish to go to heaven alive alone themselves when Indra, the god of heaven came to take him and his family. Instead, he said to Indra, “I’ll go to heaven if you take my subjects together with me. If not, I won’t.” Indra was compelled to take him and his subjects alive in heaven.
Mohan: Did Hari repent on his mistake or not?
Suman: Yes, he did but later when his mother spent some amount on her treatment, he began to blame Binita. He was abroad for his higher study. Binita’s couple seemed sure that one day those who blamed them would realize and the family would be united. There would be the day for them like of Harsihchandra, who took all his subjects to heaven in Indra’s Viman.
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