{"id":38027,"date":"2021-10-15T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/15\/he-lives-freely-i-live-in-fear-the-plight-of-indias-abandoned-wives"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:00:23","slug":"he-lives-freely-i-live-in-fear-the-plight-of-indias-abandoned-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38027","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He lives freely, I live in fear\u2019: the plight of India\u2019s abandoned wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists highlight the poverty, stigma and abuse faced by women deserted by spouses living abroad <\/p>\n<p>Kamala Reddy*, 33, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, married Vijay Kumar* in a traditional Hindu wedding in 2012. Kumar, who was working in the UK, was chosen by Reddy\u2019s family. \u201cBut he didn\u2019t take me to the UK after our marriage. He made excuses such as problems with the visa and so on,\u201d says Reddy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Reddy became pregnant. Under pressure from the family, Kumar brought her to England. On arrival, she was shocked to discover Kumar\u2019s secret. He had a British partner, two children and a stepchild. Neither Kumar\u2019s nor Reddy\u2019s families knew about the other family. Kumar threatened to leave Reddy if she told anyone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/15\/he-lives-freely-i-live-in-fear-the-plight-of-indias-abandoned-wives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists highlight the poverty, stigma and abuse faced by women deserted by spouses living abroad Kamala Reddy*, 33, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, married Vijay Kumar* in a traditional Hindu wedding in 2012. Kumar, who was working in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"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":[484,934,59,62,86,78,76,491,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-domestic-violence","category-global-development","category-india","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-marriage","category-migration","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","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\/38027","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\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38028,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions\/38028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}