AUR YE HAI EK LADLI BETI KI KAHAANI…

There lived a happy family in a small town. It’s a big family with five daughters, one son, and this is the story of the last daughter Tanu. Tanu lost her father when she was three. Her mother struggled a lot to take care of the family and educate her six children. Tanu was the last and was dear to all the members in the family ; added to that she was very pretty too… Happy childhood abruptly interrupted, because she was sixteen, a marriageable age. She gave up her dreams of studying to be a Doctor and bowed to her family’s wishes… Rihan was the boy who offered marriage but the family rejected him… He was adamant and threatened her mother knowing that there was no older man in the family. Tanu was married to Rihan but not before Rihan demanded dowry. The family gave him whatever they could muster, in the marriage. From the first day, verbal and physical abuse of Tanu began, for not fulfilling their demands… Her jewelry and gifts she received were sold, she was battered daily for her inability to bring more money… Her husband’s limitless greed had blinded him to his own brutality… In two years she bore two children but could not enjoy her motherhood because the children too faced the deprivation and harassment she faced… One fateful day, battered and her spirit totally shattered and goaded by her husband to take her life and give him a chance to marry a richer wife, Tanu took the ultimate step to get out of the living hell that was her marriage, and consumed poison…

Tanu did not die. Alerted by neighbors, her mother rushed to take her to the hospital… This was the breaking point when she decided no more – no more would she bear inhuman brutality, no more would she bring her children up as part of his corrupt life… Tanu lives today, an independent woman with two beautiful children and a source of strength to other women in their darkest moments…


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