There’s a huge university in Varanasi, so we are often greeted by students wanting to chat. Whilst dodging the rain at the most southern ghat, Assi ghat and watching the arti ceremony a young woman was chatting about her course and asking where we had traveled. She then told us how hard it had been for her to convince her parents that she was not going to compromise and she wanted a love marriage with her childhood sweetheart and wanted to work and live independently from their parents. This is modern India where women are now deciding their fate and taking charge.
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