‘My husband is a habitual drunkard but I have no complaints against him. He is good at heart; he gives Rs 100 to 150 daily for daily expenses; He cares for us; Obeying him is my duty. Whether he abuses me or beats me, I have to live with him only. I don’t want anyone to scoff at my husband. My husband is everything to me.’ These are the words of Gori Bi, resident of Fatima Nagar Vattepally.
40-45 year old Gori Bi’s husband is a rickshaw puller who is eking out livelihood for his wife and 7 children by pulling rickshaw. While going through Puranapul our correspondent come across a woman who was standing beside a rickshaw and occasionally throwing a glance at a man sleeping in the rickshaw. When asked she told that her husband is a habitual drunkard and a rickshaw puller. Her husband didn’t reach the house the previous night so she left her house in search of him in the wee hours of the day.
She searched for him from Fatima Nagar Vattepally to Puranapul on foot. On finding him at Puranapul she didn’t even think it proper to wake her drunken husband up. She told that she won’t like to disturb her resting husband.
The story of poor illiterate Gori Bi is a lesson to lakhs of educated rich ladies who, despite having all the blessings, don’t want to obey their husbands, and make their lives a living hell by arguing on simples issues. This is the reason that the incidents of divorce are on the rise in Muslim society these days.
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