"जहाँ से तुम मुझे लाये हो वहाँ वापस नहीं जाना चाहती
जहाँ ले जा रहे हो वहाँ पहुंचना नहीं चाहती
पर ये रास्ता... ये रास्ता बहुत अच्छा हैं
मैं चाहती हूँ ये रास्ता कभी ख़त्म न हो "
~वीरा त्रिपाठी
Movie - Highway
William Shakespeare said that "People usually are happiest at home" but what if your home is the place where you are inflicted harm beyond repair and everything around you reminds of horrors that snatched away your entire childhood. The bedsheets remind you that how hard you got hold of it and struggled for help when your uncle had first made a bad move on you, every corner reminds you of disgusting memories,washroom where you rubbed yourself for hours but couldn't get rid of that touch and the terrace where you walked at night wanting to get rid of the pain between your thighs that has by now become perpetual. Veera who would seem to you as the most cheerful girl, idiotic and weird sometimes but you will never hear the chaos, screams and turbulence within her.She loved the company of her abductor and found it to be more safe than her home. She overcame her burden of silence and grief. It was a cathartic journey of self discovery and an inspiration to every person who was sexually abused as a child in any way or the other. Those who have to keep seeing that relative again and again, smiling at them and bending to touch their feet, listening to their lies that you are the best girl because why wouldn't they say that. Us, who have to live in a society where screams of children are hushed to maintain the prestige of family and incest is casual mistake and not a crime.Veera found freedom in bondage, got over her fears, learnt to get rid of her pain by lessening the pain of others who are equally hurt.Its a character I can't forget even if I wanted to for the rest of my life.
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