The Burnt Scarlet Rose

Every day we are encountering sexual harassment cases, acid attacks,#me too protests, molestation at workplaces, child abuse, even honor killings for the sake of false family reputation as a part and parcel of our life. These types of cases aggravate us with horrifying terror. This story is also a bright example of an innocent girl whose life becomes poor victimization of honor killing and false ego hood. Burnt by the word itself is so much harrowing and debilitating. 

Scarlet Rose replicates a young girl who possesses an unblemished beauty that can even illuminate sheer darkness and how her life becomes a dark shadow. Hence this story sings the saga of profuse love turning into a traumatic acidic end. How can be someone so demonic and devilish destroy an innocent soul? Piyush soliloquies with a sigh. Ani is counting her days in a hospital. Piyush appears. Piyush renders her a bouquet with a peck on her forehead. Leaving her engulfed with a vulnerable end he just smiles back to her with a long breath. Then he combs her uncurled hair. He suspends to a forlorn state and languors about the already lost moments where the memories of Ani reigned supremely! He delves into one decade back. How Life churned into a whirlwind of tragic discourse. They were really wow moments for him. All things were predestinated. Their first meeting. Everything was just mesmerizing and magical. Piyush happened to be the classmate of Ani. Fortunately, Ani was the first and last love of his life hopefully. Even gradually she became the passion for his life force. She was the most amazing person who cast a spellbound glow even to each of the passersby including Piyush. Suspended by the beauty of Ani; Piyush got herself swayed by the feelings of attraction and love.

So what laid her to lie in the death bed with a most remorseful condition? Yes, it was Ani who had loaded with a handful of dreams of becoming a fashionista. She had dreamt of becoming a top-class model. To fulfill her aspiration she had got admitted to a college for seeking fashion designing degrees. Really what was her fault! Yes, the answer is to visualize a blatant dream in this patriarchal domain society. The so-called ego and false family reputation of her father and uncle clashed with her dream. Ani nonchalantly challenged them. From the beginning, her father was against her coeducational school. Rather it was her mother Sima who had fought and laid a battle against their family tradition to render her daughter wings so that she could fly in the future. Hence time flew. Ani advanced her steps towards her dream. In the lap of enchanting romance with Piyush obviously, she began to open new vistas of reviving love. He was the guy who estimated and valued her dream as if of his own. He always encouraged her and supported her to any extent. Ani found tranquillity and solace in the shoulders of Piyush which promised her a great pinch of confidence and love in their later life. As their relationship geared up, the exchange of gifts and chocolates became a part of their affair! The lovemaking of these two love birds got highlighted and became the talk of the town. As it is a saying you can’t hide love and blood; as they very soon reflect their color! Soon both of them collapsed emotionally and physically with each other. Hence the love affair revealed like a wildfire in their town clouded with her father's enraged anger. These things didn’t go well with the reputation of her father and paternal uncles. Determined to avenge they began a search operation of her stuff. Hence some lovely gifts which were exchanged as a token of love were the outcomes of such search operations from her drawer. These things landed her in serious trouble. She was captivated and caged by the so-called guardians of her family. To her utter surprise and disgust, they forcefully tried to marry her a man double to her age. She defied and eloped with the man of her heart enveloping empty hand but a soulful love as the last symbol of their paradise with her. Hence a jaw-dropping incident committed by her father. An honor killing. Yes, you heard it right! Her father caught and abducted her. She became an innocent victim of so-called family reputation and pride. Even her face and half of her body so also her soul could not escape from the daunting of an acid attack pre-planned and plotted by her father. She was on her way to college. At instances, she visualized two rouges were following her. Within a blink of a second, she failed to get in what burnt her face, eyes even towards her breast, a deep unbearable scary pain, and untold turmoil. She lost her consciousness. As soon as she was taken to a nearby hospital. Even the doctors were horrified. They kept their hands up. Even God could not help her to survive more!!