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Meenacame back home to live with her parents,the ncighbours felt as ifa bier had made a reverse trip into the house.  \nAn official envclope bearing wax seals had arrived.It had thesinister implications of a shroud for Meena.  \nTrue,it did not carry the ncws of Meens's death;it only an-nounced that her“gallant soldier”had become a casualty at theborder.Likc a shroud over a dcad body,the ncws had put Mecnaunder a pall of gloom.  \nThere are things which women know as if by instinct.Mcenaknew for a truth that,in our country,as any where,a man diesonly oncc.But here his widow,as long as she lives,dics many atime.So when Mcena retumed to her paternal home likc a biercven the dumb walls seemed to moan ovcr her plight.Her parentswere struck dumb with grief,as if God had choppcd off theirtongues.  \nIt was a spacious house-in fact,large enough to provide aseparate room for each member of the family,big or small.Meena too had a room to herself and when she came home shewent straight to it with an air of casualness,as if she wcrereturning from college.  \nThe doors of the rooms which casually opened and closed inthe normal course of events now secmed to lie under a spell.  \nThey opened only on special occasions-at weddings,births,  \ndeaths or when some member broke off from the family-fold.  \nMeena's parents looked at the passing family cavalcade,sometimes dry-eyed,at others with eyes brimming with tears.  \nTwenty years ago,when Meena's elder sister entered into holywedlock and went away to live with her in-laws,the doors of thehouse seemed to have formally closed upon her for good.Buttwo years later she returned to her old home for confinement,andit was the tiny hands of the new-armval,as it were that opened thedoors for her.But not for long.She died after forty days leavingthe suckling babe to its fate.Death had again closed the doorsupon her.Her in-laws took the infant under their wing but,unable to take proper care of him,they sent him back to hismaternal home.Fate,working through those tiny hands,hadagain flung open the doors.  \nIn the same way,twelve years ago,when Meena's brother hadgone to another city to study at the university,the doors of thehouse had closed upon him only to open again after five years.He had come home with a girl of another community,whom hehad married against his parents'wishes.Now a silk curtain hungacross the door from behind which the smell of rich food such aspullav and cooked meat drifted outside the room.Hardly a yearhad passed when this chance marriage was followed by a suddendivorce,closing the doors upon them.  \nNow it was Meena.The doors that had closed upon her afterher marriage was flung open by her own widowed hands.  \nShe had gone from here in a bridal palanquin and had returnedlike a living corpse on a bier.Her old parents helplessly watchedthis sad spectacle.As if to be saved from such harrowing sights,Meena's old father's eyes had been blighted by cataract,depriv-ing him of his vision.  \nSoon another envelope came,bearing official seals-not theharbinger of a shroud like the last one,but carrying glad tidings.It was like potted flowers suddenly smiling on the roof top.Thegovernment wanted to assist war-widows by offering land onwhich to build a house or by providing work as a means of live-  \n122  \nFiction  \nlihood.They could also get a loan to set up a small industry ortake up a teaching job in an army school.Meena was asked tostate her option.  \nTo Mecna,the letter had the implication of flowers strewn ona bier.She crumpled the letter in her hand.A part of her bodyhad dicd somewhere inside her and the fragrance of flowers hadno meaning for her.She would just kccp lying on a charpoy,likea corpse.  \nHer dead sistcr's son,Avinash,who was studying at the uni-versity,and lived in the hostel,came home during the holidays.Now eighteen,he had not known a moth .'s love.When he camerunning to Meena,the flood gates of tears,which had 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