Remembering the Juice Mango is a
celebration of life. It is a story of survival and hope for those, who like
Ratna, are forgotten after being branded 'collateral damage' in various human
conflicts. It is a saga of love across three generations, a love so powerful
that it transcends all human tragedies.
During the violent events that came about
as a result of partition in 1947, Ratna and Dev, two young Hindu orphans – one
servant, one master – sit their situation. A Sikh couple, fleeing the newly
created Pakistan into
independent India,
reaches out to these bewildered children through their own pain and trauma.
Difficult days follow, as Ratna and her newly forged family journey across
unfamiliar land, their troubling scars outlasting that moment of warring
humanity.
With the help from nurturing adoptive
parents, and the power of remembered love, nine-year-old, shell-shocked Ratna
soon grows into a powerful woman. The narrative is essentially her story-a tale
of growth and her refusal to allow tragedy to control her life.