The Loss Of Inheritance

“It will be good if a son lights the funeral pyre of his mother,” whispered everyone in the village. But Ram having studied in England, it seemed, had become English as well. He didn’t understand the value of these age-old social norms. He only knew how people lived in a westernized way.

Fed up with the behaviour and attitude of his son, Raibahadur took a vow while lighting the funeral pyre of his wife that he would never call his son again. He gave up his last hope for his son as he finished the last rituals of his wife…….