After 1981 Bama was all alone in Turaiyur.All the sons were working in Chennai. Bama's social activities gathered a momentum.
A Ladies Club was started.Her name was proposed by many for the post of President.
She accepted with a condition that her main aim was to help women who need help to
earn a livelihood. Everybody agreed. Many women benefitted out of her measures.
The prominent among them were a farmer's family who had lost their earning male member and the lands. She got them bank loan from a nationalised bank for buying cows and doing
business in milk. The family survived on this business and paid up the loan. After 25 years even now the family recalls her timely help.

Once the District Collector Shri Ujahar Singh visited her school.She spoke to him in Hindi
and made a request for a Tricycle for a handicapped boy. The collector immediately issued orders and the boy got the cycle within a week. Bama served as President of the Ladies' Club for two years and helped all those whose plight moved her and those who approached the club for help.

In 1982 Parthasarathy retired from service and kept visiting her frequently. The children asked him to wind up his establishment at Srinivasana llur - a village he served last. But he declined and instead was pressurizing Bama to move in with him at Srinivasanallur a picturesque village is  at the banks of river Cauvery and 50 Km away from Turaiyur. Bama could not accept his proposal as she had 10 more years of service at Turaiyur.Parthasarathy dangled with the dilemma for 8 years and finally was forced
by his landlord to vacate his house. He moved in with Bama in 1990,but in a highly depressed condition.

The married life of Bama can be termed as smooth only for these seven years between
1982 and 1990. Parthasarathy had changed a lot. Though not very cooperative, he was not
violent and he had started repenting his action. Bama did her best to patch up the bond
between the father and children. The children reconciled with realities and accepted him
as he was.The family went to Srinivasanallur for feativals.Parthasarathy had a larger than
life image in that village. He had spent his money and time in helping people over there.

During 1982 and 1983 Bama undertook the care for Narayanan - 3 year old son of her daughter Vijaya.Vijaya - an Executive with Telecom Dept came to her for help as there was a sudden change in her family and her in laws were not in a position to look after the child. Vijaya still recalls how her mother undertook the child. She was in the middle of her classes whn Vijaya met her. Bama  understood   her position by merely looking at her wet eyes. Without asking any questions and without even thinking of how to take care of the child when she herself was working, she asked Vijaya to leave the child and not to worry about him. Bama rebuilt the house with RCC roof only for the sake of the child and engaged a boy to care of him as he would return home from his Kinter Garden school early. The irony is Narayana got all the care and love from his grandma which she never afforded to her own children.In 1983 Narayana went back to his parents and again Bama was alone.

Bama's tutions were goin on as usual. Few ladies of Chettiyar Community in Turaiyur requested Bama to take sloka classes for them in the temple of Goddes Kannika Parameswari. Bama undertook the service with great enthusiasm and taught them Soundarya Lahari. The classes went on reglarly for abou 6 years
on every friday.

Bama's music and spiritual life thrived during this period.

...............Will be continued.