When earlier this year a team of banking officials turned up at her doorstep at Puthenvelikkara near North Paravur for initiating measures for attaching her small three-room house on a mere four cent-plot, Sulochana Ashokan literally lost it.
As the officials got down to measuring her land, the 56-year-old seethed in rage as she asked them to measure her paralysed husband confined to bed and to attach him as well. Facing the prospect of losing her home 16 years after taking a loan of Rs. 60,000 and having repaid Rs. 40,000 was something she could hardly comprehend.
The repayment got hit when eight years after taking the loan for meeting the expenses of marrying off her daughter, her husband got paralysed and she herself was put out of her job as a domestic help on developing liver ailment.
