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ipril 1942
However, the first time where [heir wills clash is on the occasion ;ivhen Mira encourages the local villagers to refuse slavish submission o Narendra's autocratic orders.
The first round is won by Narendra jy a show of armed men against the inarmed supporters of Mira.
From here onwards, the story travels to a relentless climax with ;i terrific speed that takes one's breath iway.
Mira is in a delicate condition and soon gets a child during the absence Df Narendra in the city for medical reasons.
AT THE POINT OF A GUN
The birth of a son softens the man Df steel and he is anxious to hold his baby in his arms, and wants to run back home leaving his medical treatment. But circumstances prevent his doing so and he soon comes to suspect a conspiracy to keep him away from his infant son.
The subtle details of these circumstances in different locations are beautifully worked out and woven into the story by Debaki Bose maintaining at the same time the ever-rising tempo of the drama.
Mira becomes a tool in the hands of the dirty-minded Mami and wishes to keep her child away from his father so as to avoid his evil eye.
But Narendra who had made impulse his sole wisdom of life arrives home suddenly and demands the child at the point of a gun.
Afraid of her child being shot, Mira submits to the threat but in that moment all her traditional respect for her husband disappears and she runs out of her home in disgust leaving her child to the tender mercy of her husband.
In running she falls into a river and is taken for dead. But Mira is saved by some fishermen some miles away.
MIRACLE OF MOTHER LOVE
Mint's child scon gets ill and Narendra is now in agony. The inherent good he had suppressed for years now battles with his evil mask. After days of illness the little child is on the last gasp when news of Mira living reaches Narendra. Mira is sent for and after an intense emotional struggle she returns home only to hear the doctor's announcement that the child was dead.
FUM1NDIA
His eyes give him a living. Chandramohan in "Apna Ghar"
And now begins a chapter of faith healing. The mother refuses to believe that her child is dead. She picks up the dead child and paces the room for hours through the midrrght till early hours of the morn. All the others keep a vigil, sceptic and despairing.
But, lo, when the doctor goes to Mira in the early hours of the morning to take the child away the child is found living. A mother's faith had done the miracle.
The child is soon on its own, hale and hearty again. And once again Mira prepares to leave. And still another climax brings together the husband and the wife, the husband having found a common meeting ground in the sccial uplift work of his wife.
The greatness of the story lies in the fact of every character being an average person from life. In restoring the harmony of an individual home, through the storms of life, the writer seeks to point out ^he
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