#brazenness

Change for women is happening, but it’s maddeningly slow. Take my mother, [having worn the ghunghat, or veil, her entire life, a few years ago, when the sisters first became well-known, they urged her to change her to drop the veil, and she cautiously agreed.] No one followed her example. No aunt, no female relative, no other women in the village. No one had the courage. In fact, villagers gossiped about my mother. They called her brazen. But it’s their job to bitch and our job to get on with doing what we think is right.