“We brought her back just like we had sent her off after her wedding. We want her to begin afresh with her chin up,” said Anil Kumar.
He is the father of 36-year-old Urvi who recently got divorced. He brought her back home with band baaja, with the same enthusiasm as he bid her farewell after her wedding.
In a society that frowns upon divorce and stigmatises divorced women, Anil Kumar is shattering regressive norms and standing by his daughter through thick and thin, with empathy.
Urvi, an engineer at Palam Airport in New Delhi, got married in 2016. She also has a daughter. However, throughout the course of her marriage, her husband and in-laws allegedly harassed and tortured her for dowry.
“I tried hard to save the relationship after enduring eight years of torture, beatings, and taunts, but in the end, it broke down,” News18 quoted her saying.
She was granted a divorce on February 28, 2024. Her family decided to celebrate her coming back home.
“While bringing her back home, I made arrangements for ‘band baaja’ so that a positive message would be sent to the society and people would try and understand their daughters rather than ignore them after marriage,” Anil Kumar said.
Here’s a video of the entire incident:
कानपुर : तलाक होने पर बेटी को धूमधाम से वापस लाया पिता
➡बेटी को लाने ढोल-बाजे के साथ ससुराल पहुंचा पिता
➡उर्वी की शादी चकेरी के आशीष के साथ हुई थी
➡उर्वी दिल्ली एयरपोर्ट पर कार्यरत है, उनकी एक 5 साल बेटी है
➡8 साल बाद हुआ तलाक तो पिता लाया वापस
➡लेकिन दहेज लोभी ससुरालियों… pic.twitter.com/VSP6Dyst4C— भारत समाचार | Bharat Samachar (@bstvlive) April 29, 2024
Divorced women often face societal judgment and discrimination, seen as a ‘failure’ or ‘home breaker’. They may encounter challenges in finding acceptance within their communities. Her family has set a tremendous example by welcoming her home in such a jubilant manner – that a new chapter of her life has just begun.