Ever since Gayatri was a child, she used to wonder why so many wheels for just one person! whenever a convoy of an officer used to pass through her village, which was very often since her village was one of the epicentres of social weeds.
Today though with a pounding heart yet calm demeanour she is sitting for her interview for which she turned years into hours. while waiting for her call, she happened to look up the wall of the room and noticed a poem of gurudev titled “where the mind is without fear!”. this title rang the bells from her childhood where a particular day had peculiar significance.
It was an auspicious day of ‘Akshay Trititya’ which is also infamous for being a day when thousands of child brides circle around the pious fire for the ‘pheras’ entering into the married life severely underprepared and most of the time at the expense of their education and future prospects. Gayatri was one of the them and at an age where she couldn’t get her braids right, she was being tied into a marriage knot.
It was today when those loud beacons came to her rescue. from the vehicle mounted down the district collector herself and dismissed the whole event with one single order. That sight was quite an impact on Gayatri’s mind as she herself was inherently bold & outspoken girl keeping people around her always busy in an attempt to tame her.
when ‘madam’ personally came to talk to Gayatri after the dust settled down, she asked her.. what do you want to become? in all her innocence Gayatri replied ‘YOU’. the officer gave her the most sincere nod and left Gayatri with a seed in her mind but not before ensuring that education for these girls is not compromised at any cost.
And so here she was!
MISS GAYATRI! suddenly her name was called and the voice snapped her out from the peak into the past. but she only felt proud realising how far she has came from that ‘mandap’, promising herself that of the long way she has to go!
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