For years, she has endured the pain of an abusive marriage, holding onto the illusion that happiness with her husband would one day arrive. As the Durga Puja festivities unfold, she watches couples taking selfies, capturing moments of love and togetherness. Lost in a moment of hallucination, she imagines herself in their place, smiling, loved, and free. But reality strikes hard when her husband’s cruelty resurfaces.
No longer willing to wait for a happiness that will never come, she makes a bold decision. On the Puja Mandap, she stands alone. Just as Ma Durga once declared her identity to the world in the powerful verses of Mahalaya, the woman asserts her own strength with a single selfie. A moment of self-recognition. A declaration of freedom.
In that one click, she captures not just an image, but a transformation. The power of a woman standing on her own.
