Pratik Kumar

A brown truck drives through a mud road between tall yellow grass with a lightning striking at night overhead over a black overcast sky.

We drove straight into the storm. Rain pelted against our windshield, the classic rock playing from the car’s speakers fighting to be heard over the sound of the wind outside.

Calling girls chiriya in Punjabi and many other South Asian languages is representative of the belief that we raise our girls with care, love and admiration, but ultimately their fate is decided for them.

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