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Shamayita Ray

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Shamayita Ray

Crime

I want to know who are they

I want to know who are they

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Many gurus have come up claiming to enlighten people and provide spiritual and moral rectitude. The question is can they be trusted?
  During COVID-19, I had experienced huge emotional turmoil. Doing it all by myself, like many, I had no maid to help. I am a housewife even after being a Masters and MBA. I had to choose this for the social security of my family and particularly for my son. The only working member of my family is my husband. I had no relatives neither my parents nor my husband's, who themselves had huge, as if a mountain of social and physical complaints and they never wanted to leave their home town to stay with me and my family in my husband's work place. They made it clear in their words and never missed a gesture to clarify this, fully supported by my father a retired, locally and professionally influential government official.
 My only vocational work was to submit little pieces of writing like some occasional stories or poems based on real life here and there. This small pleasure of some little vocational work had come to a stop during the COVID-19 lockdown period. On top of that my child had online classes. This meant doing the classwork and homework at home and helping the 6 year old understanding all that was going on in the screen which were obviously not entertaining meaningless cartoon videos. They needed to be understood and practiced. Unlike occasional educative videos they were regular tasks needed to be completed. People specially family members who seemed to understand why physical schooling remained closed and even talked about it positively, inviting to stay with them and constantly helping in their chores, were also quick in commenting online mode of schooling to be basically missing a valid mode of studying.
 This was very mentally oppressing for me along with a husband at work from home who equally worked hard in official work handling professional bullying and also overseeing that my standard of completing chores was decidedly inferior than that of others he knew. Out of many proofs that he had created, one was his rubber slippers' marks and stamps running from the study room in the far end to the whole of living and dining room, balcony and kitchen where I had finished sweeping and wiping minutes ago. 
 None of the shouting, fighting, complaining worked. Ayurvedic medicines chamomile tea relaxed my nerves but did little to complete my chores and help my 6 year old. Homeopathy medicines Acconite, Ignatia Amara, Kali Phosphoricum helped me sleep overtime and at odd times but did not help me in cooking in time to provide my family with food. Allopathic medicines OlanX, megapose dosed me off for days hardly allowing me to do my familial duties along with tolerating my husband's bullies.
 However something and somebody helped. This was a renowned Yogic organisation now internationally acclaimed, having innumerous centres all over India and center at Bangalore in India. Mentors of the organisation providing spiritual relief and mental enlightenment to crores of people all over the world and eventually to me too. I enrolled myself for many different sessions too with this revered Yogic organisation. Need to mention my initial knowledge about the organisation came from my husband himself who came to know about this from some sessions in his professional organisation or Company(Ltd.) where he works but he later detached himself.
The horrors of COVID-19 and Lockdown was over and my husband was transfered to Pune, the place which has now become my hometown. So we, his family, accompanied him to Pune as well. 
 My child was transfered from a school with a long term heritage of establishment where he was doing well to a now-a-days international school. My neighbourhood here had many Non Government colleges where young boys and girls, very adversely natured and with overconfident attitudes. Some were medical and other professional studies returnee Indians from Ukraine-Russia war place. Among them were grudging doctors, who were handed over Ayurvedic and Homeopathic degrees instead of the regular Allopathy degrees they wanted to earn. They were little sympathetic to new residents in their city. In the mean time we shifted to a different place in the city. I was already diagnosed with ovarian blood cyst, which much later I came to know that it was called endometriosis. Before I knew what my problem, I was convinced by a hack doctor that I had a chocolate cyst twisting my ovary. She got me bullied through innumerable paramedics, one of them I recognised as the Ayurvedic medical student similar to a Ukraine returnee, sonographer. All of them were males quite manhandling my private parts. Even in operating theatre before the hack doctor was present, though she had full knowledge of how her supposed team behaves certain incidents occurred. Much later, after these incidents were over, my face was wrapped in sheets of plastic or like material through which breathing was impossible after the reserve air in the rapped material was exhausted within 10 minutes or less.
The incidents went along in the manner as I will be narrating next. The  anaesthetist in the operating theatre asked me my educational qualifications to be a teacher very indignantly. To his questions, I answered that I was a pre primary and primary teaching qualification holder from ITA International Teachers Association. They were fuming with anger on hearing this as the voices murmured and that of the anaesthetist's fumbled. One assistant doctor probably a Ukraine returnee did very objectionable jestures and even touched me, my numb body very inappropriately. I have a faint idea, though not clear that the operating theatre at Orchid hospital had cameras.
 I even sensed that man's presence or his apprentices' who were kind of college goer students a few times I was travelling from Pune to Kolkata or Lucknow or the return to Pune by flight or via railways.
The next shock grappled me now when after almost one year and eleven months the same face of this menacing doctor surfaced as some revered 'Dham' guru meeting and greeted by our revered Gurudev who is from the world acclaimed organisation, a the organisation's Center.
I cannot make sense of it. Is it a trick or am I wrong somewhere like many women before me and in my time has been harassed by such individuals.


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