Chapter 3

Chapter-2

Sometimes to earn more profit Gucchhan went to Delhi’s Chandni chowk and Sadar bazar market and bought hand spun, cloth, sewing tools, etc. in bulk. There he met his father’s assumed sister. She had three children Maqsood , Musarrat and Mehnighar. And after the death of her Sister,the kind lady adopted the two daughters of the sister- Nasreen and Fareeda. As their father left them alone, himself went to Pakistan. The lady spent her whole life in the teaching of spiritual books. Thus, Maqsood had four sisters and all of them were teacher, in some sort. But Maqsood was a moody man, although he was the only man in the family. He hadn’t any work and if employed he fired from the work due to his egoistic and rival nature. He married a girl named Tayyab and had a girl child- Ghazala, but due to his nature, cases of domestic violence became common in the house and finally Tayyab decided to get separated with him and went to her mother’s house having a boy child of Maqsood in her womb. There, the boy took birth in his ‘Nani’s’ house on 25^th May 1969. That boy named as ‘Guddu’.

Guddu’s Nani had a brother, known as ‘Peele-Baba’ ,He had fourteen children and Guddu along with his two step sisters- ‘Guddia’ and ‘Nighat’ were also became the part of the very big family in a tiny rental house of ‘Beri-wala-Bagh’.

“From where the two step sisters came?”

Actually, when Guddu’s mother came back to her mother’s house, she left her twelve or fourteen years old daughter (Ghazala) to his husband’s, unfortunately Guddu came with her womb. After her delivery, she got married to a Butcher and from him she had two Daughter, which were the step sisters of Guddu. But after some time Tayyab Died, the Butcher left her two Daughter to their Nani’s house.

Then the old ‘Nani’ became the saviour of the three poor children. All the day she went to rich ‘Punjabi-Muslim’ houses, to wash their dirty utensils or to teach their children ‘Sipara’. And in the house, many times ‘Munnan’ (Wife of Peele Baba), threw their belongings out of the house. When ‘Nani’ came from her work, all were recollected their clothes from the stairs and then again went to live into the rat-hole. Sami too would going to be the part of the same.

Sami got engaged with Guddu for almost eight years, may be due to the refusal from the uncle-Nana of Sami. Although it is evident since Guddu’s father Maqsood used to live in his daughter (Ghazala’s) ‘Sasural’. And definitely Guddu would also do the same. Maqsood married her daughter with Gucchhan’s youngest brother ‘Ajjan Khan’. Then Ghazala would going to become Sami’s sister in law along with ‘Chachi’. Ghazala’s upbringing was done by Maqsood’s sisters mainly Nasreen and Farida. Later after the death of Guddu’s Nani and marriage of his both step sisters. He began to meet her real sister Ghazala.

And she too put her effort for the marriage of her brother, although she was aware that Guddu had not own any personal house and proper job as well. Since Peele Baba engaged him to work just at the age twelve. In short he was able to earn peanuts. Finally by all the efforts of Ghazala, she fixed the ‘Rishta’ in the funeral of Uncle-Nana of Sami.

Chapter-4