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Punishment!

She woke up hearing her daughter crying. Radha, her 5 year old daughter, had another nightmare! She held her daughter closely wondering when will this even end. When her daughter stopped crying, she put her down and looked at the innocent face sadly, knowing things will never be fine for them! She got up to get ready to go work. One glance at kitchen and she realized that the stock will get over in few days. How will they survive after that? No one will let them buy anything even if she is ready to pay. Soon time was up to go to work.  Work - Cleaning the old lady's house in the other corner of the village who felt pity on her and still employed her. But she knew that the old lady was counting her days and the day she dies,  her own world will stop! As she and her daughter were walking through the narrow path, people looked up and stared at them. She felt their gazes piercing through them as if she was being stabbed. Men looked down as if she deserved to be ogled at. Women looked