On a balmy April night in 2016, Sushila Bishnoi, 18, stepped out of her in-laws’ house in a western Rajasthan village. It was well past midnight when she began a three-km trek to the nearest highway, where Sushila hoped to meet an activist she had called up earlier.
Married off at the age of 12, Sushila was among thousands of young girls of Rajasthan who become child brides every year, some of them barely a year old. But Sushila was determined to break free from the shackles of wedlock forced on her.
But this would not have been possible without the help of Kriti Bharti, 29, who runs an NGO, the Saarthi Trust, which helps child brides get out of illegal wedlock in courts.
Read more of this in a report by Rakesh Goswami published in Hindustan Times...
