Budhini
Joseph, Sarah / Sreenivasan, Sangeetha![Budhini](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/362/36232185/CHSBZCOP0336232185.jpg)
On 6 December 1959, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went to Dhanbad district in Jharkhand to inaugurate the Panchet Dam across the Damodar river. A fifteen-year-old girl, Budhini, chosen by the Damodar Valley Corporation welcomed him with a garland and placed a tikka on his forehead. When these ceremonial gestures were interpreted as an act of matrimony, the fifteen-year-old was ostracized by her village and let go from her job as a constructi...