She woke up to the early morning sun rays playing hide and seek
with her bedroom's curtains. She turned to look at the face sleeping next to
her and smiled a lazy smile wondering on how life had been throwing surprises
at her when she least expected it.
She drifted back in time, when things were not so pleasant as they
seem and she had gone to the extent of contemplating suicide.
Purvi hailed from an economically backward village situated in the
remotest corner of Karnataka where girls were married of even before they
achieved puberty. She was the first one to defy the culture of the village and
stalled getting married till she completed her tenth. This was completely
unheard of in her village and she was already the target of the village elders
because of this act of hers!
Although her parents supported her decision initially, they
couldn't do so for long and had to bow down to the wish of the elders of the
village. Her wedding was fixed with a guy from neighboring village who was
employed in the city.
Her marriage we performed in the village according to the customs
& traditions. She hadn’t even met her husband before the wedding and
was scared on what was in store for her.
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