Question

no pain no gain about munni

Answer 1

ars of age and was forced into widowhood by her brothers at 11 years of age in the name of tradition? There is unwritten code of conduct. She does not speak anything her family, her brothers who probably are her only rescue at the moment. But the truth is that her brothers and relatives had no courage to stand up with her and say that though they moan the death of Lal Singh, they cannot send their sister to live her life like a widow all these years. We talk of widow remarriages and here we find people being forced into this by their own family. I felt only one things if her parents were alive, would they have forced her into this isolation and humiliation where she must have lived life being cursed.

Today, when we ask Munni to come out of her home and move ahead, it is impossible. People like you and me can say many things and claim our liberation but she has to live in the society there. Where is she going to do anything when she has no formal education, no one to put her head on and not to even think of any other man in her life as it is a curse, a blasphemy? I asked a young boy was why she could not marry again. He said,’ It is our tradition. We cannot think of marrying after husband’s death. That is our culture and self-respect. If anyone dare to do so, it would be impossible to get married in any of these 84 villages’, he says. I confront him that if a boy’s wife is lost or dies then how long you wait and pat come the answer from a woman sitting nearby that these people would not even wait for a month to get the new bride. ‘What can we do sir, this is our culture and tradition’, they say.