Legs dipped in the holy water of river Ganga, she blames God for making her a girl. "This is your fault, you made me a girl," she complains.
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| Haridwar Ghat |
The journey has just started when one of the patriarchs disgusted by the presence of two women claims- ONLY MEN ARE ALLOWED.
"This is not our culture," says the patriarch.
The woman sits there calmly listening to the jibber-jabber of the patriarch with other 20 patriarchs in the bus.
He tells her that she must have learnt this from YouTube and television.
"Oh, they didn't know about Netflix yet," she thinks.
"This is Christian's tradition. We are HINDU BRAHMINS," he says.
In a bus of 23 people, no one stood up to tell the patriarch that he is wrong.
"Calm down. Be quiet," responded the other patriarchs.
As the patriarch continued to spur venom, two liberals stood up. One of the liberals was a male. To reiterate one male out of 20 and one female out of two stood up.
The patriarch's argument is -"This is a man's job."
As she hears him, she smiles and thinks, "What if I was a boy? The society wouldn't have questioned me for my presence at my father's funeral."
"What if I was Christain, life would be much simpler."
And sitting beside the Ganga she questions God, "Why did you make me a girl?"
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| The patriarchs |
So touching!
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