1. Suseela Amma is a heroine in her own way. There are many like her, whose heroics are unnoticed in the ballads of our times.

2. Right from the time she was delivered as a baby in the Victoria Hospital, Quilon, on 27th November, 1957, she had to fight against inimical environment. She could not enjoy a caressing kiss of an affectionate father; nor a paternal pat; she was

'An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry'.

The matrimonial life of her mother bad already floundered on the rock of mistrust. The broken down matrimonial home, liberated the unhappy inhabitants when on 27-9-1958, the imprimatur of the Court sanctioned the snapping of the marital relationship.

3. The separated spouses were still young. Understandably, each of them loved to have a life to their liking. Sarojini Amma, the mother of Suseela married her husband's brother Kuttan Pillai. Two children were born out of that wedlock. Her father married Padmavathy Amma, a teacher.

This teacher couple had five children in that conjugal union. It was then a case of my children, your children and our child.

4. The little class quickly crossed the classes in the school,