Friday September 4, 2009
Cry of a pining mother
By C. S. NATHAN
SEREMBAN: Mala (not her real name) had to leave the country with her insurance agent husband and young son Ravin in late 2003 to escape the constant harassment of loan sharks.
They fled to Chennai in India where the 39-year-old Mala gave birth to a second boy, Mugilan, in August 2004.
But life in India proved to be worse. She had to endure constant beatings from her unemployed husband who also held her passport so she could not return home.
However, Mala, through the assistance of some friends, managed to get emergency travel documents for Ravin and herself to return to Malaysia in September 2006.
Since Mugilan was born in India and his birth was not registered with the Malaysian consular office in Chennai, Mala was forced to leave him behind.
It’s been three years since Mala last saw Mugilan and is wondering if she ever will.
“I think about him all the time. When I left him behind, I thought we would only be separated for a few months but now it’s been three years and all I have of him are the memories and a picture of him at the age of two.
“He would have just celebrated his fifth birthday last month, and it breaks my heart that we can’t be together,” she said.
Mala now lives at a welfare home here where she does odd jobs to eke out a living. She is still in hiding from loan sharks and is wary of contacting family members or friends for help.
“I’ve been sending money regularly to my relatives (in India) for my son’s upkeep. But they do not let me speak to him,” she sobbed.
“I have his Indian birth certificate, though, to prove I am his mother. Now, all I’m asking for is some help to get him back.
“I want him to go to school here and be reunited with his brother too.
“I am at my wits end. I hope the Malaysian authorities can help me.”
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