Amaya smiled looking herself in the mirror for one last time. She had been weeping all the while when her mother, Nirmala had knocked at her door and told her, “Gattu, your Papa wants you to meet Atul", leaving her bewildered. She trusted her father and she decided to meet Atul just for the sake of her father.

As her mother had asked her to wash her face and get ready in presentable clothes instead of her loose T-shirt and old, worn-out lower, Amaya had protested saying that she did not want to meet anyone. Her mother had coaxed her to meet him one last time and she had finally...