Reba ate poison around noon. Died last afternoon. She has no father. Mother Ambia Banu cried once. Now sitting like a stone statue. There is no power left to cry. There is no one at home. They are two in the whole house. It is wrong to say two. Ambia Banu is alone now. He has left his dead daughter Reba lying on the verandah.
Their house is at the very end of the village. The river is behind the house. And people do not come to this side of the dense jungle.
The mother-daughter family was going very well. But suddenly everything became random. Reba became pregnant before marriage. Great danger. The girl chose the easy way out of danger. Somewhere he ate poison. Ambia Banu didn't even notice that the girl had eaten poison. If he found out, he would try to save the girl. He went to the market to sell vegetables. When he returned, he found Reba lying on the porch. There is a pitcher nearby. Unable to bear the pain of the poison, the girl may have wanted to drink water. Ambia Banu fixed her daughter's sari. Reba was wearing a red sari. The girl dressed up nicely before eating the poison. He gave dark lipstick bought from the fair on his lips. Two hands full of stolen glass. Kajal gave beautiful eyes. He did not forget to kick his legs. The lipstick on the lips, however, is ruined. White foam has come out of the mouth due to poisoning. Ambia Banu wiped Rebar's face with the hem of her sari. Rebar brought a pillow and laid the lifeless body on the verandah.
The news of the girl's death has not yet reached anyone in the village. Ambia Banu did not tell anyone on purpose. He knows everyone in the village. No one knew that Reba was pregnant before marriage. He also did not want to tell anyone that the girl had died of poisoning. He loves the girl. The villagers will look at her dead daughter with hatred. No one wants to bathe the body. He will give the bath himself. But mullahs cannot be found to teach janaza. Ambia Banu knows all this very well.
It is almost evening. The fireflies have started to burn. The birds are returning in droves. The cold wind is blowing along the banks of the river. Such a beautiful evening is also quite unusual. Ambia Banu does not understand what the corpse will do. Two thoughts are swirling in his head. The girl either has to be floated in the water or she will bury herself in a hole or bury herself.
Ambia is a little over forty years old. She still has a good sense of humor because she has to work hard to eat. After descending with a spade, Ambia Banu started digging a little away from the uthan. But after digging for a while, Ambia realizes that it is not possible for her to dig a whole grave. Exhausted, he returned to the porch. He sat down and sat for a while. Meanwhile, Rebar's body has probably started to rot. A strong smell is emanating from the corpse. Ambia Banu is having tension. He doesn't know if he can take the body to the river alone.
But once the body was thrown into the water. The river has very good currents. The body will float away to a distant village. Where no one can recognize Reba.
Ambia Banu wrapped the rubber sari well around her body. He carried the dead girl on his shoulders. The small time has been shouldered many times. The girl was so small. He would go to the fair on his father's shoulder. Sometimes Ambia would ride on Banu's shoulder. He would climb on the shoulder and tear the tip of the laurel.
It is very difficult to carry that girl on her shoulders. The corpse looks very heavy. Going down from the verandah, Ambia Banu could not keep up. The body fell from his shoulder. In vain. When he went to pick up the body, he saw that one side of Rebar's cheek had been crushed. The girl's lips were cut due to pressure on her teeth. Her hand was also cut off after breaking the theft. At the sound of the corpse falling down, a dog came out of nowhere. The girl realized that the smell of the dog's rubber skin was not alive. Ambia saw two pairs of eyes burning in the distance. The fox came away with the smell of the corpse. They were the first to get the news of the death. Ambia Banu again carried the body on her shoulders. He has to go in a minute. Carrying the body on his shoulder, he started walking towards the river. The dog is coming from behind. There are two foxes standing behind him.
People gain weight when they die. Ambia could not go so far on the road carrying the body on her shoulders. He had to take the body down again and again. He dragged the body to the river. The body should not be thrown on the bank of the river. You have to float in the current. Ambia Banu went down into the water with Rebar's body. Big Chad in the sky. The whole river seems to be flowing in Jochna. In this dim light the river water seems mysteriously black. Ambia crossed her waist and stood in the water. There are good currents here. Before floating the body, Ambia Banu wrapped the rebar saree well with her body. So that the sari does not come off the body due to the current. Rebar wiped his face with a splash of water. Wiping his face, he noticed a strange thing. Rebar's face is smiling. Kajal's smiling face. It is clear in the light of Chad. Ambia Banu's whole body froze in fear. He pushed hard and threw the body away into the current. The corpse is floating little by little in the current. It's too late. A corpse is floating in the light of Chad, the fear is gone from Ambia Banu's mind. She cried again. He had to float his daughter's body in this way. But what is unusual? Is the corpse turning its head from a distance and looking here! Or he is looking wrong in the dim light of the moon.
