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Lajwanti
Lajwanti
Upon reaching her home, she finds that her father is ignoring
her like an impotent, and reckons her homecoming as an omen
for disgrace. He persuades her and the very next day takes her
back to her father-in-law’s home. After much bickering and
humiliation, they accept her. On the other hand, Lajwanti is
ashamed of her father who instead of helping her rather forced
her to go back to the house where she bears the domestic
violence meekly – there she burns day in, day out like a
wooden log in the hearth. To her solace, she speaks of her pain
and misery to that bird Maina.
Soon, her heart fills with the feeling that she is doomed. Thus,
when the day was getting over, thinking of the increasing
darkness, she jumps into the well to die of drowning. But she
couldn’t because she knows swimming. When she is pulled out,
she is partially conscious and in a wordless mutter says to
herself, “There is no way for me. I am condemned to live…”