She was successful in " balkanising" the joint family system in her house.( splitting the house was the prime job of then bahus. To be precise, they were the pioneers ) This happened in the late 70's. Later, she somehow "tethered" her husband. Shce followed the policy of " taking the bull by its horns. By the time her child touched his teens, her husband had kicked the bucket. Now, her ambition was to raise her son. Even that too got fulfilled. Once grown up, her son migrated to a "greener" pastures leaving her alone. The nemesis came in the form of her bahu. Her only bahu did what she did to her bahu in the late 70's. But, the intensity of the split was so high ( atleast, in the 70's, the shockwave created by the family split was absorbed by the other family membes. But. Now she had to encounter the fury of the split all alone.
As a result, her health got worsensed. She underwent tests after tests at various hospitals. Her son has no time to attend her. She was ambitious in her young age. Now her son is over ambitious propelled by his zealous wife. If her health condition worsened, further he has no option to come home but to try e- funeral................
