Thanks Lionbikash for your interesting comments.Its nice that you found the story optimistic.Its very difficult for me to write a dark story.May be because Iam a hardcore optimist myself.Your description of child birth as  the birth of hope is quite right.

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Dear Keyaa,

Two things come out strongly in your writings: Symbolism and Optimism. Actually at the end of the story I did not find the story sad, rather I found the rainbow of hope, which I think is always associated with all of your blogs, at least whatever I have read. Somehow I get a feeling that the agony you weave is the pain of child delivery. At the end there is birth of future and hope.

I am intrigued about the symbolism part.

Bikash

Thanks Aparna for your touching comments.Yes it was Mona's struggle which I wanted to bring out in the blog.As a wife as a mother as a person and as a rape victim where she has to fight with terrible feelings.I agree with you that no mother should ever have to face such situation where she has to leave her child.Thanks again for visiting.

Thanks Kalyanee for reading my blog.Yes there are loose ends.The story has a sad tone and what I wanted to emphasise was that life has to go on.Its all fine in movies where you go and take revenge but as you rightly mentioned its a very remote or a null possibility in India. Thanks again for sharing your views.

Lucky you to see a beautiful rainbow enjoy

Keyaa!

I don't have words to say how much I liked it...I wouldn't want a single word changed in your blog.. it was just beautiful... feelings of Mona were brought out so well.. it was as if I was seeing her for real.. great job!

 I totally agree with you that it is a very hard situation to cope up with and get along with your life but life should go on, no matter what... you just cannot throw it away because something bad happened. Life is never fair all the time. You got to search for something positive, when the whole world around you seems so negative.. and nothing can be as hard as doing that. But for Mona her husband and her daughter were positive elements, and it was great that she yielded to them. And as a mother, I had tears when I read the part where Mona goes to her daughter's room to say good-bye.. I wish no mom should ever come across such situation in her life, where she has to part with her child. It is most painful and most devastating experience.

Great story, loved every bit of it...

Aparna

Hello Keyaa,
Nice story but loose ends. How can she get back her
lost happiness or forget the past?
Or perhaps i felt it that way, because I have seen
many movies and seem to like them (Death Wish, Eye For An Eye, etc)
where vengeance seems the only way out
in such cases, however unbelievable it may seem
(especially if the law is unable to help).
Although it is highly unlikely that a middle-class, educated
Indian person will be able to get violent (even for revenge)
or even possess a gun .
Keep writing!
Kalyanee
p.s : it's raining out here, with a beyooootifool rainbow

Thanks Maddss123 for your comments.Yes I agree with you that the culprits should be punished and that too in a very hard way.But tell me how many times do the culprits get a punishment.I read about a case of a nurse in a hospital in Mumbai who was raped and was tied up with some chains.This made her a vegetable.She is still in the hospital and the culprit is free and leading a normal life.In our country the pending cases so long to give a judgement that people forget the incident.Public memories are very short.Here in this blog I was trying to emphasise the need to pick up the pieces of life and start a process which would help to put the incident -to bury it.I know nobody can totally forget this the scars would remain,still. The culprits and the punishment was one issue which Idid not want to touch because even if I write about them be given a harsh punishment our court procedure will take its own sweet timeThanks again for visiting and sharing your views.

Thanks Salil for your kind comments.You understood why I wrote this story.yes I wanted to bring out the inner battle of a rape victim.I was thimking from the poit of view of the victim and her life.Thanks for interpreting my blog as I wanted it to be.

Thanks Nargis for your thoughtful comments.This is a delicate issue.Yes the title could have been a different one.But I chose this to signify a positive step forward in forgetting the sad incident.We hear and read about such incidents all the time.Life is not easy sometimes.

Keyaa

The story   has been written sensitively, however, I don't accept the out come, its fine to pick the pieces of shredded life. But, more important is to punish the culprits, probably hang them by there balls with a shortest rope on the tallest tree.

maddss

Keyaa,

What beautiful expressions you have penned. The struggle inside the character's mind feels so real.

Hi Keyaa, this was such a  moving blog. Since hope is the silver lining here, you could have chosen a 'sunflower' instead, because this is the flower that always faces the light:-} But on second thoughts, 'Daffodils' was made famous by Wordsworth and definitely has a better ring to it:-} Good read indeed.  

Thanks S DDDDDDDDDD for your comment.This is disturbing story.These things are more common in our society than we are ready to accept.Yes Mona is blessed with a loving family which is what I wanted to emphasise.

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Thanks Bharatborn for your comments.The title was misinterpreted because it suggets a light story.I chose this title because I felt that if you have to face life you have to forget certain incidents.Mona is a painter who has painted those blooms.This paiting is already sold,so to highlight this fact that she can again go back to her former life I chose the title.Daffodils here are not used as happy blooms but as a positive step which she has to take with a herculean effort.

Thanks Priya for your comments.Rape can happen to anyne there is no age bar for this.Even if we do not accept this these things do happen.The title represented a step forward in the direction to forget the sad episode

Thanks Rutuja for your comments.Yes the story had someting missing.It is the element of happiness .Mona has to find that happiness and it will be a difficult journey.Thanks again for visiting.