Kahani ek ladki ki...1

Was watching TV yesterday - and a 15 min episode touched me. Its a daily soap based on child marriage - I must say a very good attempt at creating awareness of what happens in so many villages in our country and whats so wrong with it. It revolves around a young girl aged 10-11, married, her inhibitions, her questions, her challenges, her fight for survival in the new world.

Just a brief on what happened in the 15 mins yesterday -The girl had ran to her parents home without anyones knowledge in her in-laws, 2 days back, after having being punished severly for a wrong doing. The parents have brought her back to her in-laws, scared of what society may say if she stays over. The in-laws are angry with the immaturity the girl showed in running off, and are not ready to accept her. The girls parents literally on the feet of the inlaws are begging them to accept her, and forgive her, are thrown out of the house. The parents shocked and crying, leave the house. The girl is left crying at the door, unwanted, unacceptable. She runs back to her  mother who just turns her back, and walks away. Having no option left, she runs back to her in-laws on their feet begging for fogiveness, and promising to accept any hardships that come her way just asking a house to live in for return !

Well, you can easily pass the above as fiction for reasons - 

1) its something you will probably never come across in the city. 

2) its on TV in the form of a daily soap.

But its not - you can fit this in your own life - the only difference would be girls getting educated and getting married after 18. Rest of the story is almost similar - maybe milder, thats it. 

Do or Die for the girl after marriage.

Whats sad is its the society who has made it so - everyone has daughters , everyone despises it and everyone accepts it - this hurts!

P.S. - have loads to add here, but enough food for thought already for a post. More will follow soon.