Being from a typical Indian Brahmin family I sacrificed
my likeness, educational choices and so many things which I cannot even count
because number keeps going on but today when I see myself; sometime I cannot recognize
my own identity. I doubt myself and ask one simple question to myself if I am
the same girl who some years ago was just a statue of sacrifices and today when
I see this new bold lady in me who fights for the rights of women and protest against
injustice and try to protect justice always.
Some years ago I had to marry a rich Brahmin engineer guy
at the age of 20. I remember it when I just completed my graduation and wanted
to pursue further studies. I had a dream of becoming a great lawyer of this
country but as our Indian Brahmin society doesn’t like bold lady lawyer especially
when a higher position comes in the destiny of a women then maximum number of
people sow thrones on the path of that lady in order to make her unsuccessful
and ineffective in her career. It was my destiny and I had to get married soon
without fulfilling my dreams.
My husband was not soft enough towards me and I came to
know about this immediately after some months. I was 9 year younger to my
husband and we had lots of differences in thinking and likeness; Yet, I controlled
myself and somewhere a hoping ray was alive inside me and I was waiting to receive
my husband’s love. Time came and that hoping ray turned off and I lost all my patience
when I came to know that I am not eligible for any love from my husband as it
is already reserved for someone else. Yes, my husband had extra marital affair
and after almost 2 years of marriage I came to know about this bitter truth of
my life.
I finally decided to take an exceptional step for
myself as I was really young and I didn’t have dare to sacrifice my whole life
just for one bitter truth. I decided to take divorce; I had good amount of gold
ornaments which I had received from my parents during my wedding as a dowry (Stridhana). I
moved ahead filed a petition to seek divorce from my husband on the ground of “Adultery”.
Subsequently, I arranged a new home for myself and enrolled my name as a law
student; simultaneously I joined one multinational company in which I was a
legal trainee. Somehow I managed to run my household and I was getting a reasonable
amount as my stipend. After three years continuous hard work I received my “Sanad
(license to practice in law courts)”
Today, almost after 3 years I became a Legal Manager of
one of the reputed multinational company and I proud on my previous decisions
which made me more stronger and gave me a bright future and optimistic surrounding.
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