Shall I take charge of my life
My aspirations, my dreams
and above all
My respect and my integrity!
Shall I take the tiny step
and raise my voice
For I am not the “meek” partner
or the “weak” partner
But I am the Other Half
Equally Important
in the “Equal Partnership Marriage”!
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.
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.
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