(This is my version of life story of a woman, who has, in last 3 years caused immense amount of destruction in few families including my own. This is obviously not in-line of what I usually write in my blog. But while vacationing at my native place since last week, most of this recent past is reliving itself. This is kind of long, be forewarned !!! )
Anjana was born with a silver spoon in her mouth in a bureaucrats family in Orissa in 1969. Seldom did she know that time that her lives trajectory would go unlike any other rich kid, from an elite family.
All her siblings are very talented, educated and ambitious people and a lot of people are proud of them. All of them grew up to be IAS / IFS officers.
Anjana was not like the siblings. She was (and still is) very attractive, the happy go lucky types and the trouble kid at home as well as at the school.
Most people who went to school with her, knows her as someone extremely moody and stubborn. Hardly anyone knew it was early signs of a developing split personality.
Her parents got a hint of it soon, and got her married (to another IFS officer) at an relatively early age. The thought process being, that once she is married and has some of her own responsibilities, her mood swings will get better. The childish nature will mature in to that of a normal human being.
But the problems started happening within a few days of her marriage. The very second day of her marriage, she saw her husband hugging his sister in law, which was a brotherly, affectionate hug in the middle of all the guests who were still there after the marriage was over.
And, she made a big ruckus of it, saying her husband has illicit affairs with his sister in law. Everyone was shocked.
The marriage chugged along for 4-5 years and she even had two boys. But, her duality was increasing day by day. One moment the nicest person on earth.
One moment the most violent, screaming, swearing madling.
After a lot of treatment that went in vain, she was admitted to Ranchi Mental hospital for treatment. The court ordered her children not to be brought close to her, as there was intermittent risk to their lives, being with her.
In Ranchi Mental Hospital, she got close to a Woman Empowering NGO. She was a charmer. She told the NGO that she was put in the mental asylum because she protested against continous dowry harassment by her husband.
The NGO, fought a case for her and released her from Ranchi and took her to a NGO Shleter in Orissa. By that time, she was divorced legally.
The NGO made her the spokesperson of their activities. She was in TV. Newspaper. Ambassador of woman empowerment. Voice against torture. She was (and still is) a charm when in her first personality !
The NGO has very less idea of her second personality. Once she was out of the asylum, and was a household name, staying in the NGO, she started her mischief again. Most of her mischief ended with some amount of blood. All were violent. Needless to say that the NGO could not keep her for long and she was on her own soon.
She came back to her parents. Within few days of coming back home, something small caused her to beat her mom up to severe bleeding. Her parents had to go to court asking for order to not allow their daughter to stay with them.
Courts take time. Her parents could not take that much long. One day they locked their house and left to an undisclosed location. Anjana was again on the street.
This is when she started using her already found celebrity status to steer towards politics.
Orissa had a long running congress government that time. On the fateful night of 9th Jan 1999, the the key event to change that in favor of the opposition started. Anjana was gang raped in the outskirt of Bhubaneswar late in the night. Apparently, she and her erstwhile boy friend ( a journalist), stopped by a road side dhaba 15 kms away from Bhubaneswar around 10:30PM in the night.
Her celebrity status and a jouranlist witness, both helped the event grab the front page of all the new paper. She lunched the formal battle against the congress govt. that day, accusing the that time chief minister of Orissa to be behind this dirty job.
(There are many theories about that nights happenings).
That event went so hyper that Congress high-command (Sonia Gandhi) asked the chief minister to step down. The state got in to another election, and the opposite party came in to power (it still is in power).
The new govornment treasured her. Every time any congress leader had any statement in TV or news paper, they put Anjana with a counter statement and opinion. She evolved in to the most powerful woman in the state.
(That's the back ground part. The making of Anjana in a nutshell. I ll continue with how we got to interface with her and the rest. Here on all the information is first hand).
To be continued ....
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