Kameswari the second daughter was a tall dusky beauty. She was the favorite of her father, he would buy her modern clothes, pencil heal shoes to go with fashion, all the other accessories. To match the dress, and he would take her to all his parties. After all his wife refused to escort him to such parties. These parties were against her ethical code of conduct. There were people men and women dancing in each other's arms to the soft music played. Wine goblets were in every ones hands. Satya had no option but to take his tall dusky beauty daughter as a lady escort. These parties and the modern dresses Kameswari wore disturbed Padma. She was sure her dear daughter had gone in the wrong track and broken all family code of conduct. Padma's worries were of different range. Her daughter was exposed to the unethical society, what if she got into wrong company, what if she got addicted to alcohol, what if she lost all modesty of dressing. She was never sure that her husband could keep a strict vigil over her. Satya actually kept a strict vigil over his daughter, Padma tried her best to drive some sense into her husbands head with no success.
She tried to talk some sense to her dusky beauty daughter, Kameswari's innocent mind could not comprehend the moral values in these talks. She would collect her hockey stick and run off to play hokey with the boys because no. Girl was ready to play these rugged games. These outdoor games with the boys infuriated Padma even more as she was convinced her daughter had gone astray. Kameswari was oblivious to her mothers worries, as her superman dad saw nothing wrong in her playing the game of hokey. Padma decided to hand over the charge of disciplining Kameswari to her strong son Achyutam who enjoyed using hokey stick to show his superior powers on his sister, that too with his mothers consent, what more could he ask for in life. Kameswari was a strong girl ,she tolerated her brothers bullying till her patience lasted. Once she decided ,she had enough, she turned around and slapped her brother with all her might. Achyutam saw stars and fell. From that day onward better sense prevailed on him and he decided to maintain a safe distance from Kameswari. He loved showing his powers but not on a retaliating target.
Kameswari had two allies in her team , one was Rukmini the next sister and Lakshmi the fourth sister. These threesome were always spotted together in their game of cooking ,stitching doll dresses, or collecting a team of children to play a team game.
This worried Padma even more that this rebellious daughter might create a brigand of mutiny. How would she suppress this mutiny in her home, after all her most powerful lieutenant also proved to be weak in front of this dusky beauty who had added support of her father and younger sisters. Padma s worries looked like monsters ready to devour her existence and her entire family.
Padma changed her strategy of dealing with this issue, she went to her mother in law and cried her woes. Lavanya decided that the situation was really grave and the best solution would be to get Kameswari married. She went around hunting for a suitable match for her rebellious grand daughter and she was successful in finding a suitable match for her. Soon she found one very intelligent jovial boy who had the caliber of accomplishing academic achievements which no ordinary child could. Very soon the marriage took place and all the worries of Padma were put to rest. The girl was parceled off to her in laws. Now it was their responsibility to reign her electrifying spirits and strong personality and rebellious nature.
Kameswaris husband was Parthasarthy. The couple were made for each other.
Parthasarthy too had a very powerful, jovial charismatic personality added to his academic success. In no time at all he completed his doctorate from Oxford university. They had a charming daughter. Whom they started raising with dedicated care and love. This daughter became the core center of their life.
Sunrise would bring in new sunshine in their daughters face and the day would be less in admiring her existence and night would seem endless waiting for her to wake up in the morning with a lustrous smile. Every act of hers was nothing less than a miracle. The days and years flew very fast in admiring their little angel.
When she turned four one disastrous day Parthsarthy went as usual for work . He gave the lecture at four o'clock, came back to his office at four thirty and was found dead with his face on the table. This came as a thunderbolt to Kameswari. Her world was never the same again. Her wrath was turned against the whole world who was conspiring against her. She turned into a wounded tigress guarding her little baby from the evil world who was always scheming to destroy her happiness. With this unstable mind she found herself at a loss of capacity to take care of her little one and herself.
This is the time Surisastry, Rukmini's husband offered to take care of the little angel named Jayashree. Before that she tried various options . Living with her in laws. She found herself unwelcome as their eldest son, the backbone of their family was not there with them. This was reason enough to show their displeasure through arrows of words. Kameswari had no option but to acquire some skills to get job for a steady income . Gone were the days when her father would support her, he was not alive anymore. Her mother was too poor now to support one more daughter as she was already burdened with the fourth daughter Shakuntala and The youngest son Kali Shankar. All the wealth of Satya and Padma had vanished because of their eldest son Achyutam's spend thrift, luxurious ways of life.
Jayashree came into the house hold of Rukmini and Surisastry with their two daughters Parvati and Indira. Sharing and living sometimes in tents, sometimes in outskirts of cities.
