Narayan Rao and Ganga Bai were worried about their youngest daughter Subhadra (Subakka). She was the youngest of their 6 surviving children. She was all of 16 years and they were very aware that all the elders in the community were already questioning their intentions of keeping the girl unmarried for so long. What could Narayan Rao and Ganga Bai do? She was their ugly duckling. Small pox had ravaged her face and her dark skin did not help her either. Neither was she intelligent nor had the worldly knowledge of her elder sisters. Ganga Bai blamed herself for going easy on her youngest . Did her leniency make her a dunce head, she wondered. Bande Rao was a fair young handsome man who had retired from army and was now working in a transport company. He was a disciplined man but had a fiery temper. His face went red every time he was angered, which was quite often. He had lost his mother at a young age and lived with his father. He was of marriageable age and...
This is my attempt to document all the stories which I have heard since my childhood from my father, grandmothers, uncles and aunts about our family and pass it on to the next generation. These are all based on true stories and all the characters are real.