Vipin Sharma

It’s a Saturday night, and my toddler son and wife are sleeping next me to me while I finished watching this documentary. It’s been a while that a motion picture evoked so many emotions in me. I was horrified to learn about what happened with this innocent 13 year old girl, I cried with the father who is a super hero to his little baby girl, I was inspired with the silent yet strong personality of the girl’s mother, I felt broken from inside when the family was isolated and threatened, when they had to question if their dignity is less valuable than anyone else, I could sympathize with the father getting weak and submitting to his vices to bear this mountain of pain he was carrying on his shoulders. But the thing that moved me the most is the untethered resilience, courage and love the family had. Standing with each other, against the wrong firmly, knowing that the entire society around them is aggressively pushing them to give up. I take this as a teaching that a strong character is the primary and most grounding quality one needs, everything else is secondary. Money, resources, connections, power. I am sad that this happened, I could not feel happy about anything I saw, but I am inspired for sure.