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This is something I am just struggling with right now --
I fully agree with anandi's cause of stopping child marriage -- both her personal conviction as well as her responsibility towards the law...
But I have two issues --
First, I cant stop to think what responsibility she takes for the girl afterwards. I mean to what extent can you barge into someone's personal life as the sarpanch?... and all this she is doing (stopping the child marriage) is only appropriate if
a) she takes the responsibility of educating jyoti and living in badi haveli during this duration
and
b) she takes the responsibility of marrying jyoti whenever jyoti turns 18 or adult...
To stop this child marriage and then drop the whole ball back into jyotis parents court does not seem appropriate to me, particularly since they may also illtreat jyoti later on.
Second, and this is something I really dislike about anandi --
she insulted madan singh about asha and said "since asha is not your own daughter, you dont care for her"... i thought this was really out of line ... because madan singh had taken asha in under his roof, he fed her, he clothed her ... and then all of a sudden anandi walks in and says "you dont care for her" because of some issue...
today once again she insulted the girl's parents about the "durbhagya of jyoti" to be born into such a useless household to such a useless father. I think these are really strong words.
Would any of us like it if someone whom we are bringing up (child or niece/nephew) came and strarted criticizing us and our parenting based on some incident... "oh you dont know how to parent"... I mean, our reaction would honestly be "get lost, I know what is best for my child"
Any views?
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