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Thank you so much for commenting, a lot of you want to know about Bani's past and I thought I would let Bani tell Jai that. But if you any suggestion let me know. Lot of people seem to think it doesn't happend nowdays but it does in rural areas, women still leave and go to places like Mathura and Banaras seeking shelter.
I hope you like the following, I just found it this morning and its highlights the fear of widowhood .
A desire in the bangles (Ek Icha chudiyan me by Gagan Gill)
A desire is in the girl's bangles:
first they will break on his bed
then on the threshold of his house.
But why on the threshold?
Because in the girl there is a woman
mourning — who is not yet
a widow
but a widow to be.
The girl's fear throbs in her veins
as far as her bangles
The girl's desire throbs in them
The girl's mourning throbs in them
Mourning?
Where is the girl's man
for whom mourning runs in her veins
for whom desire is in her bangles?
Her man is caught
in some other body
some other dream
sorrow, other tears
His every sorrow, dream, tear
is beyond the reach of the mourning girl…
But the girl is only a girl
in her is that primal innocence,
madness, death,
whose punishment
she will give to that man
one day
when she will break her bangles…
Translation By: Jane Duran
