Sasi was never able to answer the question of whether he saw Sumathi or Gomati first who went to graze the goats. The uncle who went along to ask the girl also asked Sasi ‘whom did you really like?’. Sasi had no answer for that either. The life of Sasi who did not answer is the ‘twin story’ of Sumathi and Gomati!
When Sumathi and Gomati were walking along the road, the locals used to say, ‘Oh, their brothers have changed hands…’ But that never happened. ‘Lord God, bind us both to one. If not, there is no need for marriage, when Sumathi and Gomati said that the life of these twins was overflowing with love; As for the story, it will be interesting.
Sumathi and Gomati are 70-year-old ‘veetham’, residents of Puttur Karikal Lakhveed Colony in Kollam district. Girls of the 7 children of Karumba and Karumbi. Sumathi was born first followed by Gomathi with a difference of minutes, but both of them started crying together. From then on, this convergence of twins in all things. Even though the husband Sashi, whom he held and protected for four decades, is a memory, those memories have the same color.
After birth, Sumati and Gomati are together wherever they go. Locals called the curly-haired women ‘double beauties’ who looked very similar in sitting and walking. Wear the same color from the day you remember; Be it saree or lungi. The earrings will also be made in the same design. Nosebleed yes. Same design, same color for neck necklace. Come together even if you have a fever. Even in the hospital together. Betel leaf started tightening together. In the past, even the hair that grew up to the knees like a panicle turned gray in the same way. Although the face of one has lost teeth due to age, there is no change in the voice of both of them!
The job was wage labor in sugarcane and sugarcane fields. They worked hard to support their five sons and twins. Still, Sumati and Gomati went to school till the second class. Went for no other reason than to get porridge at noon. Just sit until you get it. Buy and go home. The lower is the latter. They will be hungry and cry. The twins will serve it to the cubs. Then there is the waiting with the elders who accompanied father and mother until dusk. Later, Sumati and Gomati stopped their studies and joined the cashew factory.
At that time there was a goat in the house; the ewe At the family home, Karikal Kurumpel, the job of the twins is to take the goats to graze every day in the Tundilthazhe farm outside the house. If it is Sumati’s turn today, it will be Gomati’s tomorrow. The goat also hopped along with the courage to always go ‘with the same person’.
At that time, a man named Sasi came to work from Pathanapuram, miles away at Tundilthazhe. Sashi, who used to take care of the cattle and cut wood, liked seeing the woman who always came with the goat. When a man and a woman meet, it is the time when the ‘sky falls’. Herding the goat and playing around it caught the eye of Sasi’s landlord. The family member said ‘Sashi, if you have the guts to go to her house and ask for the girl…’
The girl is 16 years old. Shashi was 19. Marriage age at that time. Sashi took his father and uncle and went to the girl’s house. But it was not a girl who came with goat’s milk tea, but two girls – Sumathi and Gomati! Seeing that, Sasi’s uncle said, ‘We need one person’. Sumathi and Gomati said the same thing, ‘One is enough for us too…’ Moments when Sasi started to understand that one means both. Uncle argued
‘How can that be true? Shashi will tie the girl he likes…’ Who does Shashi like? Sashi didn’t know that those who came every day with the goat were each of the twins. I have never seen the two together to understand that.
Sumathi and Gomati had already decided that if they were to get married, they should be one. Even when they knew Sasi’s will, they said the same thing. But the family was not ready to give in to it at first. ‘If one of you is sad, the other will help you. So isn’t it better to have two weddings?’ Father and mother tried to correct that. ‘What if the other person doesn’t help even if he knows the grief? Whether it’s good or bad, we’ll experience it together. The parents were silent in front of the saying that we were born together and are not ready to part. Both marriages made them agree. Uncle also agreed to Sasi’s words, ‘Even though I have found both of them without knowing it, I will feed them…’. In due course they became a ‘triple couple’.
After 38 years of marriage, the three lived in the same house until Sasi’s death in 2007. Almost a year after the wedding, Gomati gave birth to a baby girl. Named Sheela. Then, on the seventh day, Sumati also gave birth to Satyan. Sheela, Sathyan and Nazir are the time when the theaters are full. When Sathyan was 5 years old, Sumathi also gave birth to Pradeep.
So 3 children for Sumati and Gomati. We both have 3 children then and always. and 6 grandchildren. Both of them laughed saying that the children stopped at 3. Sashiyannan, who had left the house saying that he was going to drink tea on the third day of Pradeep’s death, came back with a bucket. At that time only poverty was in the cage. Someone told Anna. Three children are enough. If you go to the Red Fort, you can perform the operation. I will get 100 rupees and a bucket. Annan heard about it and went to the Red Fort and performed the surgery. Both of them told the story of how they ate rice, sugar and fish for 100 rupees when they underwent sterilization surgery.
1) Gomati 2) Sumathi
‘We got a two-room house in Lakh Vedu Colony when there were six of us including our children. If a squirrel fights with one of us, the other will fight with the squirrel. That is the understanding between us.
Loved and loved back, the last three have been separated only once. Shashi was admitted to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital for 10 days due to an accident while cutting a tree. Sumathi was in the hospital that day. Gomati looked after the children and returned home. On the 10th day, Sasi died. Even though they left the cashew factory, both of them would go to cut grass and clean the yard. Even today, the locals are intrigued to see the two walking like color photostat copies. 700 rupees per day. One account for two people like one mind to spend and keep the balance! Children and grandchildren started insisting not to go to work. The answer of both of them is the same, ‘You should work and live as long as you are healthy. Should sleep together. Dying should be together…’
There is one difference between the two who are so similar and compatible…
Gomati is strictly herbivorous.
Sumati will eat everything.
English Summary : Sunday Special about twin sisters Gomathi and Sumathi
2023-07-30 03:09:53
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