Courtesy - Sunday Island by Nan
Victory for women in films, in the courts, in daily life and most important of all over themselves; that’s what this last week showed, with March 8 commemorating International Women’s Day.
Court cases
I need to explain what I have written above. By courts I refer to two cases. MP Upeksha Swarnamali aka Pabha is applying for a divorce from her violent husband and has won offers of help from co–MPs. She intends living (alone we suppose, sans a man of her heart) in her government allocated house. Like the proverbial worm she turned at last and rose against her husband’s highhandedness and publicly accused him of domestic violence. The straw that broke the camel’s back in her case was his deliberately targeting her greatest asset – her face, and disfiguring it so she needed cosmetic surgery.
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