SAMPIGE…
A JOURNEY
CHILDHOOD… AND EARLY MARRIAGE…

Sent to work in the fields when she was 10, when she longed to go to school like her brother did… No time for toys, no place for simple joys of childhood…
Married at 12, so that her parents need not spend more money as dowry if she married after age of puberty and before she knew what marriage was…
She thought her husband would bring her flowers every night as she had heard the older girls whisper and giggle in her marriage – but all that he showered each night was blows and torture every night…
Each day was an ordeal of hard labor… Each night was a nightmare of torture…

“there is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and step the future in “ - Deepak Chopra
Which door will Sampige open to step into the future ?

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