sound of rain drops by sannapureddy &swatee sripada (books for new readers .TXT) 📖

looked as if a fairy descended down from the heaven sympathizing him, the poor.
Looking at her without even a wink he went in.
All the ladies might have completed the chit chat and left … his sister too was not there. Her children, seven year Subhadra and four year Raghu were seen.
“Have food my son” Lakshmamma said.
“Uncle! Aunty too had not eaten” Subhadra said furtively. Lakshmamma went out.
The big winnowing fan, hung under the roof was still there. With a laugh when he pulled it out and adjusted under the shelf, Gowri came in, saw that scene and smiled. The whole house was wet. Mother might have struggled a lot to light the stove, Akka might have helped her.
The shed with a blown up roof, marshy mid house, the slackened bed, blunt walls ….. Gowri must be feeling impatient watching this…..she might be recalling and comparing her ultra modern mother’s home with TV, fans and tube lights with this mother in laws.
“Shall we eat?” he asked the girl.
“We had. You and aunty...” she said.
He washed his feet and came there laid the old wooden plank and sat on it. Gowri brought the plate with meal and kept it in front of him.
“You too ...” he said.
She didn’t move.
The suspicion in him grew.
“Have you seen the abode? You never might have thought that people can live in such houses too” he said.
“This is our specialty” with a laugh he concluded.
Gowri lifted her eyes and flapped her eye lids twice. Went in brought the rice bowl and curry pot and kept them in front of him. She too brought a plate and sat. Serving rice in to her plate she said slowly,
“I saw even the families living under trees without even a shed …”
Keeping a big winnowing fan as an obstruction, the mantra of remaining dry is seen in this house alone” she said with a lingering laugh.
He too laughed.
The children gazed them surprised.
Suddenly Raghu ran out calling “Grand ma ...Grandma...”
He told his grandma sitting under the neem tree,
“Uncle and aunty are laughing without eating”.
“An invincible” Gowri said.
While eating, Shiva watched the things in front, old vessel, and old plate, dimpled pot…… cracked curry pot …….He never had a look at the household thing so carefully before. He never felt the rudeness of their antiquity this way.
He felt ashamed to see the shapes. What she may think-he felt bewildered? Rice and dal affirmed taste of his mother’s cooking.
She might have brought rice on loan from somewhere. Rice and dal is a rare food for them all. He should think of Gowri who might have been used to a variety of food as breakfast and so on.
By the time he finished eating Subbareddy and other friends arrived. They all migrated with him to the town for construction work. They knew even Gowri’s family.
“What is this ..?” Subbareddy asked surprised looking at the log of the roof.
“Night I climbed up and racked it, my brother in law” Shiva told
“Why?”
“As soon as she entered in, your sister grumbled –sunlight during day and moonlight at nights should touch her body. when she sleeps in she wants to see all the stars”
“Stop your boasting ... move courteously let us bring ten bundles of thatch and cover the roof”
“Do that my dear boys.. You will be blessed” Shiva’s sister Shivamma entered just then and said.
Leaving his sister with Gowri he left with his friends.
By the evening they completed bringing ten bundles of thatch, cleaning the roof and covering it too. Gowri praised their unity with looks.
She is astounded with the incidents of the last two days. Shiva’s arrival, introducing and revealing his relationship marriage proposal every thing was looking as a dream.
Her maternal uncle VeeraReddy is a cruel. He killed his wife ruthlessly.

Her life also he wanted to turn into ashes. They could not counter him. If Shiva had not turned up her life would have been crushed under the feet of a rowdy.
When she recalled the things of Kadapa her mind recalled mother. VeeraReddy might be troubling her! Probably disquieting her about Gowri’ whereabouts. …..
She saved her daughter fixing her self. The thoughts of her mother brought grief..
Even to call her no phone facility is available in the village. One or two had the cell phones but they always roam outside.
Night at dinner time Shiva told, “It seems yesterday and today VeeraReddy went to your home”
“Ah! is it ….”
“Danced in the streets, rebuked your mother and bothered her to tell about where she sent you. Your mother cried and told she has no idea of you at all. One who eloped with her will leave the address or what she said. Without even her knowledge we eloped is the story she said to every one. When she was forced to tell at least the name of my village she said it..”
Her heart beat amplified.
“What now” she said
“Why?”
“He may come here”
“Who? VeeraReddy? Let him come we pelt with stones and toss him away” he said no anxiety was in him.
“How do you know all these things?”
“Went to the neighboring village and called”
She looked at him adoringly.
Not only he, but even his mother, her paternal aunty who was anxious about her safety made her shrivel with thankfulness. As she came to know about the troubles they are in, not only she sent her son to bring her, but said if she could not accept him she thought of doing her marriage with some one else –that thinking itself is a symbol of her great soul.
The whole day how she demonstrated her affection! Every second looking at her and experiencing her as a rare thing her looks tickled Gowri.
Still she is not addressing Shiva with relationship, not calling him …
Before became a husband he is a close blood relative. Night she addressed her ‘♥BAVA’ to settle her mind.
She felt relieved when she called Lakshmamma as “♥Atta” sweetly.
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Next day morning Shiva started to town along with Gowri. Lakshmamma called him a side and said something. As soon as he reached Kadapa the first thing he did was to make her call her mother and talk to her to satisfy herself.
Sarojamma be braved her daughter. As per convenience she told that she would visit the village as early as possible.
Gowri felt comforted. Shiva took her to a picture.
Purchased for her some essential stuff.
Not even a mirror was there at home. Though she stopped him he didn’t listen. Though she told him to be careful in spending lest the principle for cultivation may deflate he didn’t paid a heed.
He purchased a bag of rice.
Till he purchased the cooking utensils and packed them he didn’t compromise. Then as per his mother’s instructions he took clothes for his sister’s family, returned to village by the evening bus.
As she saw the superfluous things brought by her son, she expressed her surprise.
Took rice in to palm watched carefully and went in to pondering.
But Shivamma supported her brother only.
Evening Ramanamma, their opposite neighbor, put Gowri into conversation.
“You are bringing my brother in law in to people” she said. Gowri couldn’t understand.
“All these are rough mobs. No good and no bad. No question of looking at the world. From the day I got married I am troubled so much. Just in one

Gowri didn’t talk.
Recent familiarity…such a big inquisition…… she couldn’t face it in any way!
How can she change Shiva and in what way? She couldn’t understand.
She never asked him to buy any thing. Actuality she insisted him not to.
Whether Ramanamma extolled or blamed her she couldn’t realize.
Along with ♥Aslesha Karte♥ Shravana arrived.
By that time rice saplings came to maturity and with in a day or two they should be planted.
Already it’s late; the time had elapsed but no way at all. Water in the tank was brimming over playing blissfully. All the farmers decided to turn it in to a field of rice. Every one entered the watered fields. Shiva couldn’t escape.
Not even spending three nights after the marriage, before the toughness of wedding clothes slackened, before he acquainted himself with his new bride he had to enter the marshy fields.
With lunch carrier, along with Gowri carrying tools on his shoulder he reached the field under the reservoir.
People working in their fields threw a strange look at them and resumed their work.
After making Gowri sit under the shade of black acacia tree comfortably, he went down into the field. He went on uprooting the weeds there. Just staring at him she couldn’t sit. Slowly she too entered the field and tried to heap the uprooted weeds, but he stopped her, didn’t accept her working at all. With a warning of the thorns piercing her; he brought her back to the shade. Ordered her not to leave it he went back.
All the ladies along with men were struggling in hard work in surrounding fields and folding hands with out any work and sitting in the shade watching them looked odd enough to Gowri.
Again her trial to get down in to the field…. His impediment ….
Entire scene falling in to the eyes of people working in neighboring fields ….
Old Govindamma from a neighboring field came out that side “what do you want my dear girl?”
“We work day and night in hot sun and heavy rains too. But now we already started feeling revulsion. How can you work in here in the thorny bushes? You were grown up so delicately that if you walk without slippers even the petiole of a pan leaf may pierce your sole. Is it right on his part to munch you rudely as a pan leaf bringing an educated girl like you?” she said. Gowri stared at her.
“Can’t sit without any work, ♥Avva” said.
“I am not Avva,♥ Jeji” she corrected.
“Shiva’s mother is my sister’s daughter. I am your Jeji.. Jeji” she explained.
“Am I not sitting without a work..?” she concluded.
From the edges of her eyes Gowri looked at Shiva.
He was smiling.
As expressed before the old lady was not without any work. If not working, why didn’t she remain at home?
At this age, a thought of going to a field is a work itself!
She advised me to stay with out work like her…means as an old old lady?
Shiva might have laughed with in him probably for this simile. Educated girl should not be munched as a pan leaf she made me a delicate pan leaf….
Without biting how can the mouth turns red? Gowri could not bear her comparing to that of an old. Keeping the sari pleats up at the waist she got down in to the field. Before she placed her second foot she screamed-“♥AMMA!” and lifted up her leg.
Within two steps Shiva reached her inquiring
“What happened?”
“Thorn” she said.
He slowly brought her on to the boundary.
Made her sit