Sometimes even one gets spurned to common things while most tolerate. That is the new generation. The new bride refused to stay with her hubby, no toilet is the reason…

Many would disagree with me, but true, Anita Bai Narre is the future Indian woman. This woman is called as the runaway bride, when she refused to stay with the in-laws. On the second day after settling down at the in-laws place, the newly wedded bride found that the toilet was absent in her hubby’s place. She immediately took a decision to leave the house, irrespective of future consequences. But all is well when ends well. This daring effort by this young lady had shed light on the million rural women who wait till dusk to attend their nature’s call in distant places. Pathetic situation in a country, that boasts of more mobiles than toilets.

This Anita is the way the average educated future Indian bride is going to be, beware!! This action has reaped rich dividends for the young woman. One is she was awarded Rs. 5 lakhs by Sulabh International, a NGO working for environmental sanitation, admiring her revolt. Also the whole village woke up to the necessity and now not many houses in the village without this facility.  The 24-year-old revolutionary, who hails from Chichouli village of tribal dominated Betul district in Madhya Pradesh, received the award by the hands of Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh at a function organized in the capital on Monday. The award and the hero worship will only see the birth of more Anita’s all over the country. As we need more of them to evolve this society.

Let us hear what the young bride has to say after receiving the award in her interview to a famous media magazine, "When I reached my marital house, I realized that our house didn't have a toilet. Women had to wait till the dark, and walk for about a kilometer away from the house to answer nature's call. Even I did the same for a day, but I felt very odd and uncomfortable. That's when I decided that I won't stay there, come what may, and left for my village." Narre added that she told her husband that she'd return back only after they got a toilet constructed in the house. "Initially they tried to convince me, but I didn't relent. Then they didn't force me to stay back and let me go," said Narre, who is a second year history student in a Bhimpur college.

When asked if she feared that her decision would lead her marriage into trouble, Narre, who had come to collect the award with her parents and husband, said, "Frankly speaking, it didn't strike me at all. However, after what I did, more than 80 per cent houses in my marital village have toilets now. Also, after my husband got a toilet constructed in the house and I returned, home, women from the village welcomed me as if I was some hero."(With inputs from internet- AarKay)