All people in Haryana are disrespectful towards women like us. Everybody says we have no self-respect, that we are sold like cows and goats. We feel very bad when we hear all this because we are human beings and we belong to India just like them.
I was made to do field work. Cut grass, feed cows, do all the work. I cried for a year. I was in captivity for four years.
I couldn’t run away or bring my life to an end. There was nobody who I could ask for help.
I was sleeping and I heard a voice like my father’s calling out for me. He told me that he had come to take me home. But I couldn’t leave. He stayed for two months to watch how they treated me.
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I miss everything about Assam, but even though I want to go back, I have no place to go. I don’t expect much for myself, but I work hard to educate my daughters so that they have a better life. Whatever I went through, they should not have to suffer that.
Narrative and images provided Al Jazeera
