For those moms not missed on Mother’s Day

JAIPUR: When the world celebrated Mother’s Day on Sunday, 60-year-old Neeta Chopra has been fighting with brain tumor alone at an old-age home here. Since the last one month, neither of her sons visited nor called.

Another inmate of Shubh Shanti Niwas, Shanti Devi (74), said her three sons and eight daughters had treated her in the same manner.
Chopra said her husband died of brain cancer in 1989 and had to bring up her two sons all by herself.

“I was hand to mouth literally since the medication of my husband was very expensive. My two sons Hemant and Bhupendra were in their teens when my husband died and I was working with the PHED department as a junior accountant. Despite all these, I never compromised with their studies and ensured that both of them could stand up in their lives,” Chopra said when TOI on Mother’s Day interact with mothers who gave up their everything to see that their children’s future is secured.

Recounting her ailment, she said, “Everything was okay until some years ago when I got a fit and fainted. I underwent treatment in Mumbai where life took an ugly turn. The in-laws of my son Hemant, who just got married when I fainted, accused me of stealing the peace of their daughter.”

“Confrontations started at home when I returned from the hospital. My son and daughter-in-law compelled me to live an isolated life in my own house. Nobody spoke to me. To make things better, I even got them a new house and shifted with them after retirement,” Chopra said wiping off a tear.

“Recently, my daughter-in-law started using abusive language with me in front of my son but he kept mum. That’s when I decided to leave them. None of them said anything when I came here. But, let me tell them that I am going to die here and will never seek their help,” she boldly said.

When Chopra was informed that Sunday was Mother’s Day, life seems to slip slowly from her frail body. “I shifted here this month only. Neither my second son Bhupendra who is software engineer and settled in Bangalore nor has Hemant called me till date,” she said with weary eyes.

Shanti Devi also have a sad tale to tell. “I have three sons and eight daughters. I am here for the single blunder I made in my life. After the retirement of my husband, we decided to sell off all our property and give a share to each of our sons. Maybe my three sons now, who are settled in Mathura, Jaipur and Delhi, thought we have zero balance and are useless,” she said.
Chopra said her husband died of brain cancer in 1989 and had to bring up her two sons all by herself.

“I was hand to mouth literally since the medication of my husband was very expensive. My two sons Hemant and Bhupendra were in their teens when my husband died and I was working with the PHED department as a junior accountant. Despite all these, I never compromised with their studies and ensured that both of them could stand up in their lives,” Chopra said when TOI on Mother’s Day interact with mothers who gave up their everything to see that their children’s future is secured.

Recounting her ailment, she said, “Everything was okay until some years ago when I got a fit and fainted. I underwent treatment in Mumbai where life took an ugly turn. The in-laws of my son Hemant, who just got married when I fainted, accused me of stealing the peace of their daughter.”

“Confrontations started at home when I returned from the hospital. My son and daughter-in-law compelled me to live an isolated life in my own house. Nobody spoke to me. To make things better, I even got them a new house and shifted with them after retirement,” Chopra said wiping off a tear.

“Recently, my daughter-in-law started using abusive language with me in front of my son but he kept mum. That’s when I decided to leave them. None of them said anything when I came here. But, let me tell them that I am going to die here and will never seek their help,” she boldly said.

When Chopra was informed that Sunday was Mother’s Day, life seems to slip slowly from her frail body. “I shifted here this month only. Neither my second son Bhupendra who is software engineer and settled in Bangalore nor has Hemant called me till date,” she said with weary eyes.

Shanti Devi also have a sad tale to tell. “I have three sons and eight daughters. I am here for the single blunder I made in my life. After the retirement of my husband, we decided to sell off all our property and give a share to each of our sons. Maybe my three sons now, who are settled in Mathura, Jaipur and Delhi, thought we have zero balance and are useless,” she said.