Beldangi March 08, 2010: A girl, in response to her parents not allowing her to marry the boy she loved, committed suicide on Monday afternoon, creating shock for local residents and making the parents regret for what they did.
Pabi Maya Karki of Beldangi II, Sector D4, Hut No 57 hanged her to death in Humse Dumse community forest at around 1:15 this afternoon, Ilaka police post Damak said.
Karki had eloped with her beau Tikaram Timsina from Beldangi I, Sector C1 Hut No 67. The couple had returned to their home after five days.
After their return, the girl’s family rejected the decision of the young love birds to live together. She was forcefully brought back to her parent’s home.
The parents were not available to detail reasons to separate the couple. Timsina is 30 years old and the girl is of the same age.
International Organization of Migration (IOM) generally encourages the youngster of marrying age to tie know before going for resettlement. Encouragement is more for those resettling in Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand and Netherlands where only handful of Bhutanese are resettled.
Love is Blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies, that they themselves make..By Shakeepeare not me and he is right
“Timsina is 30 years old and the girl is of the same age”
By Jeetan Muskan
It is grieving if the couple that met were not already married with others or divorced from previous marriage. The separation should not have been forced but only counseled and left to their choice had there been any thing to disagree with their decision. Forcing ones will over others personal choice does not always work success.
Were they of the same caste? I care not for it either for people of same religious conviction and common language. Timsina and Karki do not make great mismatch in this case. We must remove caste hindrances among the people living in a harmonious community knit by common culture.
Society is govern by norms and values. Such taboos teach each individual to adjust in the corresponding society. It provides certain responsibilities as an individual, family, society, neighborhood and ultimately as a global being.
Pabimaya, a mother of 3 children, the eldest daughter preparing for SLC examination is unfustificable to elope.
There is time for every deeds and nature is so kind for all the living being. It doesn’t give stagnation at any cost. Pabimaya might have chosen second husband before the delivery of first child. She spent almost 20 years with her Karki husband and it is baseless to elope to Timsina boy after such long period of conjugal life.
Considering physical, social and emotional factors also, her role as a mother is much more significant than chosing the next boy.
She sacrificed her life in the name of blind love but gave a deep wound to the family. There will always be the pinching scars for the children as they lost the beloved mother. Whatever condition may be, mother is so dear to all of us.
May her soul rest at peace. May the almighty give strength for family to walk in all wake of life.