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child, I should support my parents and compensate for not being a son and for being
a girl who would go away to her husband’s family and not be a ‘budhape ka sahara’.
My father always made me feel like a liability and I continued to study hard so that I
could prove him wrong. But that night, it was shocking that the person I was trying
to please was the person who wanted to destroy me. He was not my protector but a
murderer, as he killed the innocence in me.
The whole of the next day, I was in a state of shock and I went to my grandma (nani)
and told her everything. My father was at my nani’s residence too and when I inally
questioned him, he kept denying and said that I was accusing him of something he
didn’t do. But after some time, he said that he did it because my nani didn’t give
him enough money and because he was putting up with a “mental woman” like my
mother.
-Sulakshana
A aj aap ka show dekh kar maine apni 7 years purani chuppi todi aur bachpan mein
jo mere Amritsar wale mama ne mere saath kiya woh sab apne parents ko bataya.
Aap ka show dekh kar mujhe himmat aayi. Andar se pal pal marti thi jab uss pal
ko yaad karti thi. Sochti thi ki kaise bataoon mummy-papa ko aur kin shabdon ke
saath. Ab main andar se pal pal nahi marungi.
-Pooja
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a girl who would go away to her husband’s family and not be a ‘budhape ka sahara’.
My father always made me feel like a liability and I continued to study hard so that I
could prove him wrong. But that night, it was shocking that the person I was trying
to please was the person who wanted to destroy me. He was not my protector but a
murderer, as he killed the innocence in me.
The whole of the next day, I was in a state of shock and I went to my grandma (nani)
and told her everything. My father was at my nani’s residence too and when I inally
questioned him, he kept denying and said that I was accusing him of something he
didn’t do. But after some time, he said that he did it because my nani didn’t give
him enough money and because he was putting up with a “mental woman” like my
mother.
-Sulakshana
A aj aap ka show dekh kar maine apni 7 years purani chuppi todi aur bachpan mein
jo mere Amritsar wale mama ne mere saath kiya woh sab apne parents ko bataya.
Aap ka show dekh kar mujhe himmat aayi. Andar se pal pal marti thi jab uss pal
ko yaad karti thi. Sochti thi ki kaise bataoon mummy-papa ko aur kin shabdon ke
saath. Ab main andar se pal pal nahi marungi.
-Pooja
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