Two minute conversation with a garment worker.I could have been Princess Diana too.

Special Correspondence. I got married at a very young age to a worthless husband. I was his 4th wife. He hid everything and married me. Then, not long after, he started beating me badly. I couldn’t take it anymore, so I went back to my father’s house. Then my parents persuaded me and sent me back. I just couldn’t adjust. He was much older than me. I tried a lot to make it work. If a husband is good, you don’t have to become his 4th wife. Nothing worked out. I managed the household with a lot of hardship. He didn’t even give me proper food. I lived with great difficulty when it came to clothes. I was young, I didn’t understand what to do. Then one day I decided I would go far away somewhere. That wasn’t possible because I had no money. For someone who has no money, the whole world is as dark as a new-moon night. Then I went back to my father’s house again. I told my parents to take me away from there for good. My parents agreed. Then that worthless man came again with his parents, begging, and took me back. I thought maybe he would change. But as they say, a dog’s tail never straightens. After that I didn’t look at anyone else. I myself came out and got a one-sided divorce. After coming back, I spent some days fine at my father’s house. Then my parents got fed up. They started taunting me over everything. They would even say, “Get out of the house.” I couldn’t bear that torture anymore, so I left home and got a job. After some days that job was gone too. Then I became destitute. I didn’t know what to do. I went to my friend’s house. I learned work with my friend. Now I work in a garment factory. Alhamdulillah, now I’m somehow surviving, eating and wearing clothes. If a woman doesn’t find happiness in her husband’s house, then her life becomes hell. Only a divorced woman understands what kind of pain is inside her. So I request you all, please don’t make bad comments about divorced women. If we go around all the garment industries in Bangladesh and talk to millions of workers, I think we’ll hear millions of such stories. Just hearing the statement of the garment worker in the picture made me shiver.I could have been Princess Diana too. I think under the Ministry of Industries, arrangements should be made to secure the future of all the workers in the factories.