Short Summary Of Miayn's Farm By Krishna Prem

Miayn’s Farm, is a famous short story written by Krishna Prem, dealing with the killing of female child in the ages by gone and the modern times. The story develops a connection between the ancient society and the modern society, and tries to explore how the things have gone from bad to worse. The story develops around Ranoo, who once was a victim of this evil practice, but was saved by a man of morals, Padmanaabh. It also shows that in the times bygone among parents mother was never willing to kill her child but in the modern era both the parents willingly abort the girl child.
Miyan’s Farm, is the story of a girl child who happened to survive the ill fate at the hands of her own parents. The story is regarding Raano Boo, an elderly woman, …show more content…
Everything fell apart. The old mansion was left empty, the customs of the Haveli died down. Badde Miyan Ji’s youngest son Kuldeep Singh visited the Haveli occasionally and Raano tried everything to make them comfortably, but now age refused her to do things nicely and comfortably. As time passed Ranoo’s father fell ill, and there was none to look after her except Raano. When her father was on death bed, he called on Raano and said to her that since nobody is there in the Haveli, he wanted to tell her something. He said to her, he is carrying a huge burden in his heart and before he dies he wants to cast off that burden. He said that he kept the secret for so long, but since now everybody has passed away, he feels to speak the truth to …show more content…
Narrator focuses entirely on this issue by portraying the story of Ranoo boo, who herself was a victim of it. Narrator shows how the times have changed, but the change is ironical, in reality nothing has changed, even in the modern society this practice prevails, but what has changed is, the child is aborted, killed before her birth, secondly, in the modern times both the parents willingly kill the child, thirdly in the modern society there is no scope for saving the child, as none would come to her rescue. In an ironical manner, the narrator seems to like the old age tradition, for several reasons: one, only father would kill the child, and mother harbored her love and sympathy for the child, if she was to be killed it was to be done in the absence of the mother, secondly the child was allowed to born, thus there was a scope for her rescue as was done by the Padmanaabh in case of Ranoo, thirdly the ancestors would keep something in the memory of the deceased. But the modern society has developed so much that it leaves no scope for the