Rising Thorn: Thunderstorm

By Harish Noudiyal

This playwright has main idea, to express the feeling between poor and rich, individual or families from generation to generation. In this regards no matter who they are and where they come from. This playwright contained three different families. First family correctors are Cory, his second wife Hayley, son Devante and step-daughter Kamla. Cory is a farmer and has small land in the countryside where a rich family has big amount of land next to Cory called Tom Alter. Tom has given to his land for leases to other farmers as the farmers were belong, to the Cory village.
Tom has gold and diamond business in the country and abroad. Whatever he makes through the commission, he distributed among the farmers. Cory always has jealousy with other farmers, so he has plenty enemies in his society. The farmers were not friendly with Cory, because he is active in criminal activities with the gang, and arrest so many times. Hayley love her daughter and want to give her good education. Her daughter Kamla was very intelligent, wise and excellent in her studies from scratch to the collage and her motivation to become a doctor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984584144

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CONTENTS

To My Parents

Note To The Reader

Introduction

Pride To Your Nation

Rising Thorn

TO MY PARENTS

The calendar says the ninth of the month, the day you left us. I could not express my sadness. I was extremely uncontrollable. There was darkness in my future.

People celebrate Father’s Day once a year. For me, it is every moment of every day. It brings tears to my eyes, knowing you could, and would, always show me the way. Your will to succeed has been the star of my dreams. I know working with me was not always as easy as it seemed. We had good and tough times since I opened my eyes.

I remember you used to boil a large pot of water mixed with green grass, which the cattle used to eat, and rice (jangriyal) so the four of us could fill our stomachs. We had no money, food, or clothing, but you made us happy, and we survived. You never let anybody know what we had or had not. During the tough times, you always brought us together. You always wore a smile so we would never feel those struggles. You showed up for my successes no matter what. You pushed me to keep going when I thought I couldn’t. You would say to me, Come over, Kutta [son], and comfort me. Those word I will never forget.

My successes and glory belong to you, Dad. Our long walks and talks were and are the inspiration that keep me going. I always feel you with me. You are my salvation, my inspiration, my angel, and my dream.

I love you, Dad. I really do. You are my father, friend, hope, courage, stamina, strength, and success. I promise I will do my job and take care of my responsibilities of family according to your instruction. I will do this seriously, honestly, and truthfully until my eyes are closed and I come to you.

No matter if family regards me or not, I need your, and Dadi’s (grandmother), blessing and support. You promised, Dad, that you would look out for me no matter what. You have, and I thank you.

Whatever the circumstances, the loss of a father is very painful to bear. You are the source of my strength. I miss you, Dad. I am lonely. I have no one around. But of course, you are. You are in heaven and looking down on me. I love and miss you, Papa.

Proudly, respectfully, and thankfully,

Your son, Harish Noudiyal

NOTE TO THE READER

Most of the text of this book is comprised of the stories of people based on their daily life in the society where they live. I interviewed with people who told me over long hours of conversation. To set the context for these oral histories, I have written introductions with the background material to each chapter. In a number of instances are both fiction and nonfiction. I have left it necessary to insert additional background information in the text of an interview.

Harish Noudiyal

INTRODUCTION

This playwright’s main idea is to express the feeling between poor and rich, individual and families from generation to generation. In this regard, no matter who they are and where they come from. This playwright contained three different families.

First family correctors were Cory; his second wife, Hayley; son, Devante; and stepdaughter, Kamla. Cory was a farmer and had a small land in the countryside where a rich family had a big amount of land next to Cory’s called Tom Alter. Tom had given his land for leases to other farmers as the farmers belong to Cory’s village.

Tom had a gold and diamond business in the country and abroad. Whatever he made through the commission, he distributed among the farmers. Cory always had a jealousy with other farmers, so he had plenty of enemies in his society. The farmers were not friendly with Cory because he was active in criminal activities with the gang and had been arrested so many times.

Hayley loved her daughter and wanted to give her good education. Her daughter, Kamla, was very intelligent, wise, and excellent in her studies from scratch to college, and she was motivated to become a doctor.

Her stepfather was a rude and violent person toward his wife and daughter; sometimes he abused them verbally or physically. Hayley’s first husband passed away when Kamla was only two years old. Hayley worried all the time for her daughter because of the area where they live. Because of her college expenses, she had to work for the rich family taking care of the handicapped old lady called Merry. She was working with the family since Kamla was three years old. She could have left the job a long time, but she had no choice.

When Kamla was in college, she fell in love with a boy called Shareek. He belonged to the rich family, but Kamla had no knowledge of his richness. Kamla told him about her background, family, and where they live. Kamla was so beautiful, good-looking, and intelligent. He said that he loved her no matter what and one day he would marry her. When Shareek’s father found out about their relationship and reached to the extreme, he warned his son to stay away from this love affair. If not, the consequence of this relationship would be horrible. Shareek took this no mind and continued his relationship.

Tom decided to send Shareek to the UK to take over the office. On the other side, Kamla had no clue. How could it be possible that he had his final exams, which was the following month, and left for the UK? But she had to wait and see what would happen.

Cory got mad when he got this message and thought something was behind this situation because before Tom left for the UK, he warned Cory and said to stay away from his son and do not dream; he would cripple him if he would act otherwise.

Tom had the land next to Cory’s, which was given to other farmers. The next day, Cory collected his criminal gang friends; destroyed Tom’s farms, live animals, and all the machineries; and killed two farmers and injured a few others. He was disappointed as he planned to get his daughter married to Shareek to cover his criminal activities and thought that Tom had a good reputation in the society and police department. Cory had plenty of enemies in his society and knew that they will take revenge.

The farmers who worked for Tom’s farms were worried how they would support their families because they were dependent working on Tom’s farms. Although they had their land, it was not sufficient to survive. They were very angry and sad because they lost two of their best farmers and some were badly injured. Cory had a bad reputation among the villagers; they always stay away from his family because of his criminal activities. They were boiling inside, so they collected the farmers from different villages to take the revenge. All the farmers gathered in the evening in front of his house and asked him to come out, but instead of coming out, he started firing at them.

They all physically forced themselves into the house, grabbed the gun from him, and beat him to death. Unfortunately, his wife was caught in the middle and was being killed too. They were not intent to kill her, but because of anger and wetness. They went upstairs and grabbed Kamla and took her far away, raped her, and threw her to the roadside. They also dragged Devante into the van while he was coming home late and beat him badly too.

After being treated completely in the hospital, they decided to file a lawsuit against Tom, but they lost because of lack of evidence.

Kamla’s brother encouraged her to get married with the rich old man so they both could take revenge. Kamla was not ready for this kind of activities, but she was scared from her brother because he was the member of a criminal gang, and according to them, he was using his sister. Now Kamla married John in the city.

John was a farmer and had lots of properties in the city and countryside. John had two kids, Tulsi and Bablu, but teenagers. Kamla started her planning through her brother, robbed them, and threw his two kids on the street. John could not take it and passed away.

With the help of Kamla’s classmate and friend Ganga, she managed to arrange a small room and get a job. Kamla was surprised to see when she went to get the job through Ganga that her stepmother again remarried to the owner, Mr. George. George had a gold and diamond business in the country and abroad and had a brother who went to the UK for a higher degree to become a doctor. Immediately she changed her name to Teena instead of Tulsi. There was a fourteen-year gap, so her stepmother could not recognize her. On the other hand, her mother changed her name to Judy instead of Kamla.

Devante was working with George’s showroom and was in charge of the gold and diamond jewelries. He had been caught through his local merchant and been thrown out by George. Now his sister stole and passed on to her brother whatever valuable there were. They were both working for the gangs. Finally they were rounded by the police department and released all the kidnapped people from two to twenty years along with large amounts of hard cash, firearms, drugs, gold ornaments, and antiques.

PRIDE TO YOUR NATION

Patriotism is national pride, which is the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to the homeland and alliance with other citizens and share their feeling, thought, religious practice, and culture. Although this poem has nothing to do with the story of this book and their characters, as an American, I personally advise to have respect with dignity and pride. America offered from the past so many years citizens from different part of the world and gave them full freedom to practice their thought and choose every right to speak their opinions and express their ideas toward the interests of the nation