{"id":34016,"date":"2021-07-13T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/13\/the-indian-girls-movement-fighting-child-marriage"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T06:00:36","slug":"we-can-do-anything-the-indian-girls-movement-fighting-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34016","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can do anything\u2019: the Indian girls\u2019 movement fighting child marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free education<\/p>\n<p>Priyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the process, as schools shut and work dried up. By October 2020, her parents had settled on a suitable boy from their village of Ramathra in the district of Karauli, Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>But Bairwa, now 18, wouldn\u2019t hear of it. \u201cDuring the pandemic, every family in the village was eager to marry off their girls. You\u2019d have to invite less people, there were fewer expenses,\u201d says Bairwa. \u201cBut I refused to be caught in a child marriage. There was a major backlash \u2013 constant fights. I finally threatened to run away and, fearing I would do something drastic, my family called it off. My mother convinced them to let me study and I joined a college.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/13\/the-indian-girls-movement-fighting-child-marriage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free educationPriyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1671,913,245,1587,1066,1128,1908,646,59,62,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-marriage","category-child-rights","category-children","category-childrens-rights","category-coronavirus","category-dalits","category-forced-marriage","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions\/34034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}