GIRLS OF YONDER TIMES

 It took decades for girls' education to be finally acceptable.

Yet, for lakhs of school leaving girls, their dreams of higher education were shackled by ultra conservative chains. 

Else you might have become a dental surgeon or stepped into any other profession where you would have done wonders. I am not joking. Your approach to life and issues loudly proclaim  that. But had you been a boy the script might have been different.

Education opens the mind, allows imagination free rein. However for people who mattered at your young age freedom was scary - beyond 'control'.

You were sent to school or College. But those who controlled you could not tolerate your assertion of your own  likes and dislikes, let alone the freedom to choose your own future.

You were not unique or solitary at that time. It was the order of the day.