‘I Want To Study, Not Marry’: How a 19-YO & Other Women Stood up to Rajasthan’s Bride-Exchange Custom

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At 14, Monica Jod had already begun to understand that the life being planned for her was not entirely hers. She had come to Sambhali Trust after being denied the chance to study. At home, she grew up hearing that a boy was the light of the family: “Ladka Ghar ka chirag” . The women around her did…