article_snippet: Indian parents often have to save  a lot of money to ensure a good marriage for Indian parents daughter.
article_snippet: I, too, longed to be independent, far more so than was expected of a Bengali girl in the 1970s.
article_snippet: I know so many other Indian girls felt the same.
article_snippet: Yet for so many girls in India, dreams are vanquished by nightmare life scenarios.
article_snippet: so many girls in India are denied education and married off within months of so many girls in India first period.
article_snippet: Those problems are not limited to India or the rest of South Asia.