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Articles: Literature | Chalam’s Maidanam
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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For a while Rajeswari agonizes over whether she is driven by animalistic lust or noble love or the simple desire to free herself from the shackles of soul-killing traditions. Finally however, she tells herself that she is making a sacrifice because her heart longs for Ameer, because he is a straightforward and courageous man and, above everything else, he knows how to make intensely passionate love to her. By going away with him she would get an opportunity to spend days and nights looking into his eyes, to share with him her joys and sorrows, to love and worship him and not just to satisfy her lust.
However, to the uninvolved observer it would appear that she is guided neither by love nor lust but by her instinct and an unconscious desire for unbridled freedom and the vaguely romantic idea of herself as a self-sacrificing, not self-seeking, woman.
The “maidanam” they now start living on is bound only by a distant blue mountain and skirted by a stream. It is overlooked by an ancient fort atop a hill, half a kilometre away. They build themselves a hut and survive on rice cooked with the minimum of condiments.
Rajeswari finds it hard to adjust to the new life, used as she is to physical comforts at her husband’s place. But where there is love, how easy it is to make sacrifices, even of physical comforts! Ameer and she lead a full-blooded life here. Bathing in the river for hours, sunning and lounging on the pristine sand dunes, cooking rice when hungry and making passionate love form the routine of their life. In doing all this they remind us of Rousseau’s noble savages. In fact the idea of ‘noble savage’ was very dear to Chalam.
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