FICTION: ‘You are my university, Aama’

After years of struggle to secure her son’s future, Radhika’s life takes a tragic turn, forcing her son to abandon ambition.

Sagar was raised by his single mother. His parents had been separated some ten years ago. Radhika, Sagar’s mother, wanted to save her marriage, and to that end, she did everything she could. But all her efforts went down the drain. Her husband was in an illicit relationship with a woman who was a schoolteacher in the neighbouring village. Seeing her husband’s stubborn nature, Radhika couldn’t shake a gut-wrenching sense of doom.