Mother India - Apocalypto

Mother India, with a bindi* on her forehead which no rain or floods can erase, is in a fast-filling well with her little son, trapped in unrelenting rain. She is pregnant and in labor. Skies! Send down a savior. Don't show your cruel might on a poor woman in survival fight Her man, chased by enemies, has to return. Return he will she knows for sure even if pierced by arrows or spears or chased by panting hungry panthers. And finally he does return, badly mauled, to pull her and their son together with the newborn out of the rising well. Yet, they have a catastrophe impending. Spaniards are at their shores to colonize, in shiploads; heavily armed; they decide to seek refuge in the jungles of their ancient nascence hoping for a new beginning, instead of falling at the feet of those invading. May enemies as ruthless as the Spaniards come in hordes, in different shapes, both from inside and outside. Mother India survives in her sacred jungles of yore with her children of abundant valor where a Ganges flows along singing a universal love song Those of you who have a requiem for her written and ready in your hands beware, shudder before you rise or enter. She is destined to survive for ever and flow unhindered with her Ganges of culture. _______________ • A vermilion mark adorned by Indian women on their foreheads symbolic of their marital felicity.