Naked island-Part 2

An emotional thriller series.

Part-1 & 2 combined to understand the story.

Part-1

2019

News update: The revolution of earth slows down due to the change in the climatic conditions. In every part of the world, the change is noticed. There are no rains in Spain for the consecutive 4 years. The lakes in the hill station of Ooty, India gets dried. Many rivers in the United States of America are without water. Occurrence of snowfall in Miami, USA. The depth of the borewell for water goes deep down every year. The effect reflects in the ocean too. The sea level is rising, and few cities are now “Ghost Cities” submerged in water. Surprisingly in a few parts of the ocean, land is rising.

The scientific community and the public are worried about the future, but one Physics student in Germany is keenly seeing the developments and it kindled lot of interest in him. As usual, everyone was back to the routine day-to-day activities. Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change, but all leaders are busy worrying only about the next elections.

Present day-Istanbul-Turkey.

Osman the police inspector is getting ready to go home from the Police station on a Friday evening as he wants to spend his time with the family, the weekend. A woman named Banu in her 50’s enters the police station. She approaches Osman and registers a complaint that his son Abdullah did not return home from the college. Osman asks Banu, “There must be many reasons for your son not to reach home on time, and why do you want to register the complaint on the same evening”. Banu says, “I know it is only the evening of the day, but my son Abdullah never misses swimming session on any Fridays. After returning from College every Friday, he has never missed any swimming class for the last 4 years. That is what is worrying me. I tried to reach him multiple times, but his mobile phone is not getting connected. Osman was curious and got more details about him. His father was serving in the Turkish armed forces and died in a war. Since then, Banu brought up Abdullah in his life. She says Abdullah was fine till this morning. The only regret in his life is, he misses his father dearly so much that he always argues “Why does a country fight with another country for place? When soldiers are killed in the battle, they give awards, does these awards bring back the lost life for the family? these medals decorate the walls and add no value to the life of the person, who has lost the dear one”. Many times, in anger, he has thrown the medal that was received for his father’s service to the nation. Banu said, “Beneath the anger, I could see the love of a son who misses his father so much.”

Osman informs his wife that an important case has come up, so he will come home late. He gets Abdullah’s mobile number and informs the service provider Turkcell to trace the current location for Abdullah. Osman gets the social media details of Abdullah from Banu. To his dismay, for the last 4 years Abdullah had not used it.

In the meantime, Osman gets a call from the mobile service provider Turkcell that they could trace the last location near Bosphorus Strait. Osman rushes to the spot with a sniffer dog.

The sniffer dog finds the damaged SIM card and Abdullah’s bag containing the college books near the bank of Bosphorus Strait. For Osman, Abdullah is not kidnapped by anyone since any kidnapper will not leave the bag and the SIM card at the bank of Bosphorus Strait. It looks like a voluntary act and not a kidnap or just to confuse. Osman’s worry is where has Abdullah gone into the sea? because the Bosphorus strait leads into the ocean!

Banu had lost her husband and now her only son Abdullah. Many sunrises and sunsets happened after that incident but there was no information about Abdullah. Was he kidnapped or if it was a voluntary act, why and where should he leave to? No answers.

Banu throws away her husband’s medal into Bosphorus Strait and keeps the home door always open with a belief that one day her son Abdullah will return.

Was Abdullah kidnapped or killed or had left home?

The story continues….

Naked Island-Part 2

Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu-India.

In the coastal city of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu state, the southernmost tip of India lived Agilan, a Tamil teacher. He was the headmaster of the Government high school in Kanyakumari. A schoolteacher earnings are not that much, but he was happy in teaching Tamil language to the students. He was inspired by the Great Tamil Poet, Subramania Bharati. He has a girl child and Agilan named “Bharati” after his inspirational figure. He stopped with one child since he could not afford to bring up other children due to his low income. His room was filled with the poet Bharati’s books and his photographs. Little did Agilan know that someday her daughter will become a Girl, the great Poet imagined.

During her school final exam holidays, she stepped into her father’s room since she felt boredom being the single child in the family. She started reading the modern Tamil poems and books of the Poet Bharathi. Once she started reading the works of the poet, she was pulled into the world of the poet Bharathi, who was a great nationalist, outstanding freedom fighter and a social visionary.

Whenever Agilan was at home, Bharathi would ask about the life of the poet. One day she asked her father, “Why the great Indian Poet Bharathi considered as a national poet, pioneer of modern Tamil literature, people’s poet, great freedom fighter, had great vision for the independent India, a man who knows 30+ languages had only 10+ people to attend his funeral?”. Agilan jokingly said, “Unfortunately his era did not have Twitter or Facebook to mobilize people. The great thing about him is, no student passes this world without studying or reading about him in his or her school. Even today every school in our state has a picture of him”.

Many evenings on the Kanyakumari beach, she would loudly sing the poet’s song “Achamillai achamillai, acham enpathu illaye”– Fear I have not, even if all the world opposes me. Even if the entire sky breaks and falls on my head, fear I have not. She was moved by the incident of the poet Bharathi, when he offered grains to birds when he had very little rice grains in his own house due to poverty.

Slowly the timid and shy Bharathi got transformed into a brave girl. She participates regularly in the school elocution competitions and her fierce speech attracted many. She spoke against the caste system in the Hindu society and asks why every student is admitted asking for his or her caste? Wherever she spoke, she made popular the poet’s theme of “If one single man suffers from starvation, we will destroy the entire world”. Poet Bharathi wore a turban due to his admiration of Sikhs. She started wearing a turban like the poet and her mother Malar Vizhi will scold her, “If you wear like this, then no man will marry you!”. She was not worried as she was on a mission in her life.

She became popular day by day. She got the prestigious national award and came into limelight. Two eyes started watching from outside the country and tracking her. Akilan was surprised when one day Bharathi wanted to learn swimming. Since first time, her daughter asked an interest outside the poet’s world, he agreed and he was so surprised that there was no day, she skipped the swimming classes.

She was in the final year in college, one evening Malar Vizhi was ready to prepare the crispy and delicious vada for Bharathi. From the kitchen she was looking at the wall clock and that evening, the two arms of the wall clock were moving so fast for Malar Vizhi since Bharathi did not return home on her usual evening time. Malar Vizhi informs Agilan and slowly tension grips them. They went to the college which is very near to their home as Bharathi never carries mobile phone to college. The staff informed them that she attended college and left for the day. They search around the city and ask her friends, and no one has any clue about her. The evening became so dark that they had to approach the local police station. Police swung into action and the entire city police were on their knees all through the night but no trace of Bharathi.

Next day morning, all the news channel started screaming and started giving their own theories that she might have been kidnapped or murdered due to her fierce speeches, or someone wanted to suppress her voice which was appealing day by day. Agilan and Malar Vizhi did not expect a turn in their life as she was the only child and they had lost her.

Akilan with a sense of grief enters his room. He started looking at the picture of the poet Bharathi and talking to him, “I made my daughter strong as you, still lost her in my life”. Suddenly his eyes noticed a piece of paper protruding at the back of the picture. Agilan pulled the paper and opened. It was a piece of paper, handwritten. He wiped his tears to read what was written on the piece of paper.

“Forgive me, I have chosen the path of Revolution”-Bharathi.

Agilan showed the handwritten paper to Malar Vizhi, and both decided to tear the paper, so the outside world do not know this revolutionary path taken by their daughter Bharathi.

Where has Bharathi gone? What is the revolution she is about to carry on? What is the world going to witness?

The story continues….

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