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Since most of us enjoy a city life and come from sound educated backgrounds, we rarely get to visualize the advantages of such backings as compared to a villager or people from small towns. Although I don't indulge in the daily soap fare, I happened to catch a few episodes of this serial, Balika Vadhu, where they potray the trials and tribulations of a 11-year old girl who gets married and goes to her in-laws house. Although the serial has been over-dramatized a bit, it really got me thinking that how fortunate we are to live in a modern society, where child-marriage is frowned upon.
My daughter is 9, and I cannot fathom her being a bride at that age and neither can I picture my 11-year old son bringing home a bride.
Unfortunately child-marriage still exists in the underbelly of our Indian society. As it is, the girl-child is looked down upon, and to top it off she is married off at a very tender age. To come to think of it, the government wanted to reduce the legal age of marriage!
Issues like this and the recent under-age Jain sadhvis are what educated people like Mr. Raj and ilk should focus on.
However, I hope a few of you can view a few episodes to understand my drift...
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