She had had to sleep with her husbands on the first nights of her two earlier marriages. It was customary for the groom to bring the bride home on the very day the marriage was solemnised. It was routine for the newlyweds to bolt the door and sleep together. However, the night of her third marriage was different. When he did not bed her on the first night, she considered the third husband impotent. That he might be a paagol – not quite right up there – had not really occurred to her. Given her prior experiences, it would not have been easy to make sense of this. Rehana’s family, too, had failed to comprehend that the groom was soft in the head. That’s mysterious, though. The crackpot groom not being discovered, or instead of getting pummeled, making it through the ceremony in broad daylight, and getting the bride home, all in all, were unquestionably peculiar. Rehana enjoyed the strangeness. She was even pleased by her husband. Why?
How wonderfully did the groom’s family cover up his madness during the wedding! Still, think about it, hiding the man would have been easier than hiding his madness. The credit for this success...Read more
