India: Indian girls write to Modi demanding marriage age be raised to 21
Aljazeera – September 03, 2021
Sonam Kumari left her house in the eastern Indian state of Bihar after her parents began to plan her marriage last year. “I wanted to study but my parents did not listen. I was left with no choice but to leave the house,” she told Al Jazeera. Last month, Sonam decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to increase the marriage age for girls to 21, like it is for the boys, “so that we can complete our studies”.Sonam’s story sparked a silent movement in Haryana, which at 879 (females against 1,000 males) has one of the worst sex ratios among the Indian states.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/3/indian-girls-write-to-modi-demanding-marriage-age-be-raised-to-21