She was a beautiful & studious girl & the only child of a wealthy family in Chennai. She was also well-versed in Samskritam. One devastating day, she lost her father.
A person started helping out the family & developed a relationship. He offered to marry her, though he belonged to a different religion. He spoke to the mother repeatedly that he would take great care of the daughter. He offered to even live with the family. After a year of wooing, the family & the girl agreed.
They were married per dual religious customs.
He needed some money for his business. Then more. Then more. Gradually, the family wealth dwindled.
One day, when mother & daughter returned home, the entire Pooja room was bare. He said that it was wrong to keep these in the home. He had trashed all the deity pictures & vigrahas from the home. This was in the girl's family home that he had moved into.
He started asking his wife to start covering her hair. Though academically brilliant, she was too soft-spoken to refuse. She meekly started obeying. Eventually, he forced her to quit her job.
He asked her to not study Samskritam or say Slokas anymore. He forced her to start studying a different language & script. She meekly obeyed.
Eventually, his business ended up in a huge debt that the family had to sell their home & move. The mother lamented that she had made a huge mistake. However, the daughter was now pregnant. She hoped that things would become better after the baby was born.
I don't know what became of the family afterwards.
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