11 November, 2009

I went to the college campus to attend a staff feast. I left  Smita, my wife alone in my quarter. No sooner had I reached the campus I received a call from her to return home immediately as someone was ringing the calling bell.

Here, at Malkangiri life is always under threat because of the naxal menace. Every day  one or two incidence of violence take place in this district. There is rarely any day left when the district is not mentioned in  the Oriya news for its recurrent notorious Naxal violence.   So it is natural that the mental state of a lonely women in a quarter will be terribly threatened when at an odd hour of night the calling bell rings.