ABSTRACT
Rimani Marandi has hardly a moment to sit and relax. Workingin the fields, going for wage labour, brewing liquor for sale, cooking and looking after the children ... the list goes on. From difficult beginnings in a poor family, where she toiled at home while her brothers went to school, hard work inured her to life’s uncertainties. But now her husband lives with another woman. He wanted to bring her in as a second wife, but Rimani put her foot down. She also refused to divide the property, as she is looking after the two children. To make her give in, her husband harasses her constantly: harvesting a little paddy from her fields clandestinely, coaxing Jeevan Soren to demand back the paddy he lent her, pressurizing the village council to make her agree to a partition of the land or just shouting obscenities at her.
