Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 She and her husband Sahad shared this with Sahad's younger sister Mono. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Mono was a very warm, friendly person, always cheerful, though she had suffered much hardship in her young life. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Mono's husband was a ne'er do well who had long since deserted her. He had returned to Bangladesh. This had left Mono to raise their daughter on her own. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 My connection to Tuku was not reestablished until 2005. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 But it was as if I had never been away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Soon after she and Sahad had a baby girl. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Tuku asked me to name her baby. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 I called her Honey. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 I had missed Honey's birth, but I had the satisfaction of watching her grow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Now Honey is ten. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Tuku had always wanted her own house, and dreamt of one with a big roof where she could teach her Bharata Natyam dance form to children. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Considering her financial circumstances, this was unachievable. But I had helped her to buy the land, and then to lay the foundations. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Five years on, I fully expected to see the house completed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 But I will have to sell more comics, for work yet remains to be done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Mono's daughter had also grown. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 But where was Mono? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Mono had been running a tiny stall in the market to make ends meet. Tuku explained that a few years before, her husband had returned from Bangladesh and had taken up with Mono again. He was extremely possessive, and had convinced himself that Mono was seeing other men. So he beat her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 One day, on a public holiday in 2013, he asked her to forgive him, and invited her to a relative's house. But the relatives were away. There in the empty house he strangled her. Afterwards, he went to Tuku's house and calmly told her "I have murdered my wife." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 So quiet! doth the change content thee?—Death, whither hath he taken thee? To a world, do I think, that rights the disaster of this? The vision of which I miss, Who weep for the body, and wish but to warm thee and awaken thee? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flex Mentallo 20,309 posts Posted March 22, 2015 Ah! little at best can all our hopes avail us To lift this sorrow, or cheer us, when in the dark, Unwilling, alone we embark, And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of, fail us. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
