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Domestic violence-Listen to the other side
A friend’s daughter spent eighteen months in hell, the months of pure agony and a world only parallel to Stephen King’s Misery.
Asian parents are in too much of a hurry to marry off their daughters, I don't know why but this obsession with getting the girls out of their homes as soon as the teenager is about to turn into the twenties is a thing of nightmares for them.
My friend was also in the same line of hopefuls, had adorned the daughter with a western management graduate degree and all other essentials to fetch a suitable suitor. Hundreds of humiliating catwalks in front of drooping eyes, skype calls with frustrated and bored rejected men and FBI style interrogations by would-be mother and sisters-in-law took a toll on his daughter. She became bitter and sour with all the rejections, her fate was the same as thousands who undergo this routine daily in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Parents start treating their beloved girls as a burden and give them an air of detachment. The image of grandiose and fairly tales imagined turn to ash with every passing year and rather than a prince charming, the same parents are content to offload their girls with a horse cart driver at the expected price.
I never understood the rush…
