Resourceful persons often get tied down with travails

By O J George

Fate automatically bestows on resourceful persons a lot of travails. For each according to his/her ability, that is the ratio of the blessings of Agony Goddess on human beings.

Anguish, torment come to the intellectual almighty too soon than to easy beings.
That is the levelling factor Fate has conferred on all of us.

Vayalar Ravi and Mercy Ravi were a mighty couple, endowed with a lot of blessings. Their union itself was unthinkable in the days of 1969, a Catholic girl, overcoming all the social pressures, becoming the wife of an Ezhava. That was unthinkable in the societal mores of those days.

Still she chose what she thought was the fit person in Vayalar Ravi. They together ploughed a political furrow together. Vayalar Ravi was blessed with the intellectual company he wanted most in Mercy Ravi.

They had many a travail and they faced all of it bravely. Mercy Ravi, even as she was suffering from kidney failure and connected problems, fought on courageously.

And as far as Vayalar Ravi is concerned, he provided her with the best of care anyone can fetch in this world.

For Mercy Ravi it was a rendezvous with the inevitable. She might have been waiting to meet Destiny, for she might be arguing with the Being about the travails besetting human beings.

She won an Assembly election only once and then she made history. She is the only woman MLA from Kottayam Assembly constituency. She would have fetched greater political glories, but by then she was crippled by ailments.

She has established a kidney research foundation which should provide succour to the patients suffering from kidney ailments.

Y S Rajasekhar Reddy was soaring like anything in the political graph, but then destiny gave him a violent death. No one knows the way we meet with our end.

For Mercy Ravi there was a long time for her to reflect on the aspects of life. May her soul rest in peace.