Let Me Also Speak Please

This is the story of every girl who want to speak for herself, her pride, her future but the society, the culture and fake beliefs of our country don't let her fight for herself. The story is all my own imagination, it does not have any connection with reality but yes the theme or subject of the story is the cruel truth of our society.

A girl named Meena belonged to a poor family but she was proud of her family and the upbringings she got from her parents. She was having 1 brother and two more sisters in her family younger than her. Her parents was not so rich but still they gave her proper education so that she could stand on her own in her life ahead and she don't have to depend on others for her needs. She got every kind of freedom from her parents because they trusted her. As she was elder of all her brother and sisters and only their father was the one to earn money for the entire family, so she decided to do a job which suits her personality and education so that she could help her parents and provide more better education to her brother and sisters than she got from her parents. After some discussion and after Meena made her parents understand the situation she was allowed to go out of house and do a good job. She was very beautiful, kind, gentle, understanding, caring and respected girl in her locality and now she was a grown up girl and her parents wanted her to get marry as everybody in her neighbor started forcing her parents as always happens in our society. Neighbors are always more concerned about the girls age of marriages than their own parents in our society. But Meena was not ready to get married at that time so she asked her parents the reason behind their worries about her marriage and then she got to know the actual reason behind that and convinced her parents to let her work and help them for some more time. But how could the neighbors sit silently because girls for them were meant to get married as soon as possible and burn her life in kitchen and home by cooking food and taking care of her husband and kids after marriage. So now they started attacking on her character that she remains out of her house all the time because of her work and often comes home late at night. And why she is not agreeing to get marry, it means that there is something wrong. without knowing the facts all the neighbor came together and announced everywhere that Meena is having a boyfriend that is why she don't want to get marry. When her parents got to know about these talks they felt ashamed and now decided finally Meena to get married. Meena was not agree but this time her parents did not listen her and forcefully married her to a guy who worked in a private company. They were not so reach so they could not fulfill the demand of dowry as asked by the boy's family to whom Meena was married. After 2 months of marriage Meena's mother-in-law started torturing her for the demands of dowry that her father was not able to fulfill at the time of marriage. After some days she dared to ask her husband to allow her to do some job as she was equally educated and wanted to take her own stand and don't wanted to remain depended but her husband without listening to her and understanding her needs rejected her wish. She wanted to give the remaining amount of dowry to her in-laws by her own earning because she was familiar with the situation of her house, but no body listen her. By the time passed the whole family including her husband started forcing her to ask for the money from her parents but she rejected to do so and the result was that after some day violence against her started in the home and her in-laws told her to go back to her father's house if she cannot bring money from them. As Meena was educated and aware of the consequences of dowry system she packed up her bags and decided to return back to her house and take divorce from her husband. And while returning to her house on the way she filed a case of violence and dowry against her husband's family in near by police station. When she returned back to her house her parents were shocked and surprised to see her condition, no. of marks on her face and body and when they asked her for the reason she explained everything, including the filing of case against her husband and in-laws and the divorce thing. But her parents were afraid of society, what if everybody comes to know about the condition of their daughter and the case in police station and divorce. And thinking of these things they decided to give some amount of money to Meena's in-laws and told her to patch up with her husband and in-laws and live peacefully with them otherwise the society would not let them live and their younger sisters would not get married. Meena was not ready to go back but for the shake of her family she agreed to go back.

After she went back to in-laws house for sometimes she lived happily but after some days again they started demanding for money. this time condition was more worst than last time as her family got to know about the case was filed by the Meena in police station against them. And this time the revenge resulted to Meena's murder. Yes, after Meena rejected to ask for more money from her parents and also told that she would give divorce to her husband and file dowry case against all of them her in-laws became more strict and confined her to a room and did not gave her anything to eat for so many days and abused her. One day her in-laws burned her alive and killed her and by  bribing some amount of money to the police inspector they shut down the matter and case too.  And the violence ended with her life. Her parents was left with the tears in their eyes and went in the court and still fighting for their daughter but there in no hope for the justice because they are poor.

 So, by the story i just want to say, why people are so much worried about the society and because of that after knowing the consequences also don't respect their own emotions. Society was meant to share our pain and sorrow to along with our happiness but its just opposite to it. When ever you are happy,smiling and living your life smoothly, the so called  society will have problem with that and they will always point out your happiness and destroy it but when you shade your tears none of them comes to wipe your tears instead laugh at your condition. Same happened in the story when Meena was happily living with her family society always pointed her and when she was in trouble did anyone of them came to solve her problem...??? The problem is that the society don't let women use their education and rights properly and this is a very big reason behind the occurrence of violence against women. People please understand and respect the feelings of women, let them also speak and help them fight for their rights and help them fly high their dreams, don't kill their dreams.

                                                             Sonalika