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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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As Alpa waved her aarati lamp before the deities in the family altar, she wished for the light of the aarti flame to to pierce the inner darkness she felt. She asked the gods to help her find a way to draw herself back up from the dark well and into the light, where she could feel like she was a part of life and not so separate.
Everyone had only the nicest things to say about Alpa’s devotion and hard work, but these points rarely came up. In fact, it seemed that the only time people spoke about her this way was when her family began discussing her marriage. They spoke so frequently about her diligence, her intelligence, her pleasant nature and her beauty during this time that she really began to feel like she was someone special, someone valuable.
Soon after Alpa’s marriage, however, her family involved her less and less in their plans and conversations unless it was to discuss when she would have her first child. Her husband’s family also took her for granted, but she had expected that. While her husband himself was sweet, he was also quiet. Alpa didn’t feel she could speak to him about her feelings.

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Aarihini stopped the car to take in the stillness that surrounded her in the countryside. She was glad she decided to get away and explore! She knew she was only a few hours from the city, but she felt like she was in a different world altogether.
She took a few deep breaths as she admired the green, the quiet and most of all, the feeling of being completely liberated from the chaos of the city. She had even switched her mobile off to make sure she didn’t pay attention to the endless stream of emails that were coming to her inbox.
“They can wait until Monday,” she weakly told herself as she felt a wave of guilt pass through her for ignoring her work.

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As she went on to collect the day’s wood for cooking, Alpa thought back to her childhood, when she would happily join her mother. Her mother taught her how to choose good wood, how to avoid insects and how to stand tall while carrying the wood on her head.
This was a joyful time when Alpa’s imagination buzzed with infinite ideas about the life that lay ahead of her. She was confident that if she followed the advice of her family, she would have all that she would need, both emotionally and materially.
Alpa had been so good and fulfilled everyone’s expectations of her – and even moreso after her mother departed. But it seemed that the more dependable she was, the more everyone could take her for granted. As those around Alpa paid less and less attention to her, she felt herself fade into background until she became barely noticeable at all.

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Again, Alpa was standing in front of the tiny mirror that hung in the hall, going through her morning routine a little later than everyone else. As she applied her sindoor, her eyes again wandered to the crack in the wall made by the nail that held the mirror up. Like every day since the mirror was hung, she followed the crack in the wall with her eyes, noticing the tiniest increases in its length and breadth over the last 24 hours.
Again, Alpa wondered how long it would be before the forces of nature worked through that crack to bring the entire wall crumbling down – would it happen all at once, maybe even from a tremor in the earth? – or would it just keep slowly breaking down over the years, particle by particle? Like so many times before, Alpa considered these same thoughts about what felt like the gradual and persistent breaking down of her spirit.
Again, she noticed how beautiful the late morning light was as it entered the room. Again she scolded herself for no longer being able to take any pleasure in such beauties of everyday life.

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