The Chronicle of Golgotha Days
My debut Novel " The Chronicle of Golgotha Days" is set to launch by Mid April 2019.
Plot
Summary
The Chronicle of
Golgotha days is a dystopian novel by the author Sujith Balakrishnan inspired from a true event, happened in India
during 1996. Like a road diary, the novel expounds the roughest ordeal of a
sixteen-year-old girl abducted and tormented by her captors over 40 days and
nights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9H92VnsIlw
Abhaya, a sixteen-year-old
9th grade student, introvert and meagre in her studies, founds
companionship with a 30year old man, Babu,
a ticket checker and cleaner in a Private bus while she commutes from her home
to school and back. Father, a post master in the Government post office, mother
a nurse in the public dispensary and elder Sister, Amala, an under graduate student are her family members.
Abhaya, stays and studies at
the school hostel as an antidote to improve her academics. She goes home every
Friday evening and comes back Monday Morning. Out of
her continuing poor performance in studies on one side and the compulsion from
her boyfriend to run away with him, Abhaya
takes a brusque decision to go with him. On a Tuesday evening dressed up in
school uniform, with two sets of casual dress and some ornaments and three
sarees stolen from her mother’s closet, she meets Babu and starts their journey
together. He advises her to pretend they doesn’t know each other during their
journey. When she gets down from the bus, she founds her boy friend missing. Abhaya
searches him all over and smell some foul play. The day was getting dark and a
lean lady, Jayachechi, starts to follow her. Abhaya plans to go to her uncle’s
home but reaching the bus station she realizes she has to walk three kilometers
through the interior dark roads to reach home. Perplexed while standing at the
bus station, Jayachechi approaches
her and introduces to a man, Gurumurthy
aka Guru, who tells her Babu met with an accident and will be reaching tomorrow.
They convince and take Abhaya to the man’s home where his mother is living.
It was a cheat plot and his said
home a third grade running lodge where she is tortured and raped on that night
by Guru. She is taken to numerous places, sexually humiliated by various men
from all slices of society, Petty politicians, businessmen, lawyers, Government
officers …..., over 40 days and nights. As the protracted ordeal comes to an
end, she becomes half dead and of no use.
Every day is a new hell for
her, oscillating between torture and death, with a quickly dimming flicker of
hope that one day she will find her way back home. But will she? What does home
really mean to a broken mind?
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