Budhini

Name: Budhini
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Author: "Sarah Joseph Sangeetha Sreenivasan"
ISBN: 9780670093830

Sarah Joseph Sangeetha Sreenivasan

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On 6 December 1959 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to Dhanbad district in Jharkhand to inaugurate the Panchet Dam across the Damodar river. A fifteen-year-old girl Budhini chosen by the Damodar Valley Corporation welcomed him with a garland and placed a tikka on his forehead. When these ceremonial gestures were interpreted as an act of matrimony the fifteen-year-old was ostracized by her village and let go from her job as a construction worker citing violation of Santal traditions. Budhini