The extra marital affair
Her hair was frizzy, lavender colour made her look paler and dark circles did add the extra (charisma) albeit!
The everyday routine followed.
The “menstruating” dilemma!
Rani seems to be totally ignorant of her surroundings, and the changes happening in her body as a result of going through the phase of puberty. Baldev, the groom, tries to convince his aunt to not send the bride to Gaokar – an isolated place away from the village. This is not because he believed that menstruation is a natural phenomenon, but to fulfill his sexual urges and consummate his marriage, as later unfolds in the storyline. The plot further reveals how Rani stayed in the dilapidated thatched hut with the bare minimum of comforts and was subjected to victim blaming after getting molested by some boys.
A Wishlist left unfulfilled
It was a customary affair every night. I shed tears, pinched myself to muffle my cries and prayed to God to drift away my wandering thoughts.
Burden of Future on our present
Exorbitant rates of the marriage/banquet halls and the swanky (lanky) increase in the salaries.
The backdrop remains the same- hefty inflation every year without fail.
There seems to be no tie in!
The Wedding Vows: A Perennial Love Story
Here they were, 2 of them, on a frosty December morning in 2001, thoroughly enjoying the drive amidst the mountains.
The next moment when she opened her eyes in the hospital, everything had changed. The blood report said “HIV Positive”, and the envelop read “Sia”. It felt like a thunderbolt and in that moment, she wanted to find solace in her fiance’s arms, but he was nowhere in sight.
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