Source: Sahiyar

Location: Vadodara, Gujarat

Language: Gujarati

Translation:

We belong to which family?

This is the husband’s home while the father’s home

is perhaps the son’s home

But which is a woman’s own home?

A foreigner in her father’s home, she has to go to another’s home.

A foreigner in her husband’s home, she has come from another home.

In which home is she not a foreigner?

In this way, every Indian girl is an outsider.

-Nandini Mehta