Seto Dharti

This book presents one of the major social problems in Nepal. In this book the author shows this problem through a story. This book aims to show the difficulties of little girls who get married and later get widowed. In some places of Nepal especially in the villages the parents give away their daughters in small age when she even do not know about marriage and all. Then she gets difficulties in her husbands house where she has to spend her entire life. The condition is even worst for those who loses her husband earlier and get widowed in such a small age. The widowed girl has to suffer a lot in her entire long life. She is forced to wear white sari even though she is small. Although she wishes to wear other clothes no one hears her. When she becomes young still she has to wear white cloth and has to get bounded in the rules of the house. Time starts passing and she becomes an old lady but the common thing is the white color. This book won Madan Puraskar, the prestigious Award for in 2068 BC