Good news, for a change!

Sep 24, 2009 12:02

Rekha's village, Jhalda II, is a seven-hour drive from Kolkata and has one of India's highest female illiteracy rates. As is the fate of many girls here, Rekha's parents pulled her from school after they began arrangements for the wedding. No point in learning since she would soon be a bride. "I felt very sad because my best friends were going to school," said Rekha, speaking in Bengali through an interpreter. "I was feeling very sad because I was captive in my home."

So Rekha did the unthinkable. She said "no."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/International/story?id=7884900&page=1

freedom, feminism

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