Doilies & Daffodils
Introduction
Esha was adopted from Chennai, South India, to live in the UK with a wealthy family of land owners. Her parents who used to operate a jewelry shop, were killed in a fire, when dacoits plundered their house to steal the more costly gold and silver jewelry they kept hidden for posterity. Luckily, her name was entered in the same bank account as her parents, to inherit whatever fortune incurred as a result of her parents lucrative business.
Her mother and father who were from Rishikesh, near the foothills of the Himalayas, were Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa worshipers; vegetarians who used to keep a few cows as part of their inherent duty, thought her the meaning of life. They were very pious and generous people, always giving in charity. Their family business brought them to settle in Chennai where Esha was attending school, learning French and English. She wanted to be a teacher of Āyurveda.
The dacoits had forced their way into their home in the night, when Esha was returning from a drama play enacted at her teacher’s house. On her way home, which is normally a safe and quiet route, along a narrow pathway near the ocean, she was attacked by two young men who, with a knife to her throat, defiled her purity in the most indelible manner. Stripped naked and tied to a tree, she was left bleeding and half conscious, after the harrowing ordeal of the rape attack.
Their Āyurvedic family doctor found her in the morning, when on his way, going the same path to join them for the morning Aortika or service, at the local Jagannātha temple. He was told of the remains by the family’s regular rikshaw driver, on his way back home with devastated heart, of what was once the sacred home of the Hoques. He would normally cycle them all to the temple. Double stupefied, he helped the doctor with Esha to the hospital.
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