” Stories that wrench your Heart” – By Riddhima Sen
Riddhima Sen is currently studying comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. She is an author,artist and host. She has won several wards so far, and self published around twenty solo books so far . She participates in exhibitions ad well, and recently participated in a national group exhibition .She hosts online literary online events as well .
The Mango Leaves
It was a sunny morning of May . Sushila was sitting on a couch in the living room . Her hand had a cup of steaming warm coffee in it . Her deep pink t shirt was lit up in the radiant sunlight, and the pattern of the face of Frida Kahlo was prominent . Her flat was located in the south of Kolkata. She was a freelancer, in her early twenties . Her parents stayed in her ancestral mansion at Purulia . She had a long day ahead of her .
After finishing her cup of coffee, she headed towards the master bedroom around 7 o clock . She sat on the attached chair , and started working on her daily projects . As soon as she opened her dell laptop , a childhood picture of hers flashed before her eyes . She was with her brother, and parents in the mango garden of their ancestral mansion .
It was her laptop background. She reminisced her childhood days , as soon as she saw the photo .She was around twelve years of age back then , her brother was eleven years old . She was clad in a blue and white polka frock . She was studying in a local school back then, along with her brother.
It was about the summer in 1960s , when it was an evening of a thunderstorm . The siblings were playing in the mango garden . The younger sibling found a little bird near the trunk of the old mango tree. The siblings tended to the little bird , and then let it fly . As she looked out of the window, she saw a mango tree in the apartment park . It seemed as if her childhood memories were still wth her, a tear fell off her eye.
She was receiving a call from her brother, Anil , who was a doctor in US . She received the call , and the siblings talked about the old mango leaves, which they often used to collect .
