This movie is a tear jerker where all the important characters die eventually, at just the wrong time, to melodramatic perfection.
Went to the fort. It is huge, crowns the top of a hill. It overlooks the town. The shutters have thick patterns that provide privacy, and allow the residents to look outside quite easily.
There were a collection of letters that must have been hell for the footmen to carry up into the fort.
Inside there are many luxurious rooms and apartments gathered around some distributed courtyards. It would be a pleasure to live in such nice surroundings.
I contacted Nanda to offer to exchange the euros she got given, ran back up all the way to the front gate again. Got there 5.27pm, guy said he was open til 5.30, I'd said I'd be back, but fk this place sometimes. Tuktuk guy said banks shut at 5pm. So finally back to Nanda's again after doing the Rocky Balboa run right around.
She gives a strong herbal milk chai, fantastic. They don't even meet their husbands before the wedding day. Then suddenly they're in bed with a stranger. Her mother got married at 13. It must have been painful. She'd only just had her period. Nanda got married at 21? I think 🤔, young anyhow. I say her husband must be nice and advanced since she is independent with her shop. But she says no, it's a deal. She must cook, clean, get the kids homework done, do the pooja (religious rituals to clean bad spirits or something) etc, and then she is allowed to go do her NGO.
When a husband dies, he expects his wife to kill herself so that only he would ever have been with her. Typically that would be on a funeral pyre. Not sure of the logistics. Caste etc still happens, especially in rural areas.
She knows some amazing dancers in Jaisalmer and would like me to get them out to perform, for their self esteem and to see outside their own world.
I skipped dinner. I want a full stomach reset!!
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