Who Will Answer This Question?

The smell of incense sticks filled the room. People murmured among them about the incident. Mr. Santhanam was placed in the middle of the room inside the Box. His wife was weeping silently . Manju and Susi his daughters were crying hugging their mother. Raja only son of Mr. Santhanam was weeping as he was performing the final rituals. Karthika who entered the house watched this scene. She was daughter of Mr. Santhanam’s younger brother. She was unable to cry . She was filled with sorrow. At the same time, when she saw Santhanam’s son weeping she was filled with anger.

“Appa, what is this ? Why do you keep on coughing? My child will get infected because of you.” , said Raja when his father coughed due to illness.
“Appa, Don’t spit here? Why don’t you understand? I think you can better go to some room and stay alone” , said Raja when his father was sick.

Mr. Santhanam was working as a LIC Agent and unable to take these words of his son left home and stayed in a room alone. He used to work all the day long in the hot sun collecting Premiums and then at night would come to his room . Most of the days he did not have proper food and also he was becoming sick and pale day by day and there was no one to take care of him at his Old age. Sometimes he used to think of his family and wanted to join with them but his self-respect did not allow him to do so. He used to call to his home and talk to his wife every week . She was allowed to be with her son to look after her grandson. It so happened his wife did not get call this week. She was worried regarding this and asked his son to visit his room and see what happened to his father. But Raja told he was very busy and left for office. At office, he received a call that his father expired two days before and people found it only now as they suspected his absence for the past two days. When they broke the house and entered they could see Mr. Santhanam dead. He had died due to High Pressure said Doctor after examining the body of Mr. Santhanam.

Karthika was thinking about these things. She saw Raja performing the rituals, he was pouring the milk weeping. Karthika thought to herself” When his father was alive he did not give even a glass of water and no one was near him to take care of him when he died, now what is the use of pouring milk after his death?”