“Women from her milieu and in her situation only leave marriages when they become unbearable,” he said, “because they pay a heavy price.” She had. Though she had a supportive family (which is unusual), she was unwelcome in the village because she had a) eloped b) with an upper-caste man c) from the village and—as though that wasn’t bad enough—d) she had left him. She now worked in the city and was with someone else.
