The Survivor

This is a story about an all-rounder beauty named Prapti who lived in Pairaband, Bangladesh. The only sin she had committed was falling in love with a man named Abdullah.

Abdullah approached her first and kept following her. He even got acquainted with Prapti's elder brother just to get near her. He communicated with her using her brother's phone.

Slowly, she fell in love with the charming, mischievous Abdullah. He serenaded her with red roses at her school. This story spread throughout the whole school and the town like wildfire. As a result, Prapti was house arrested. She was abused by her family non-stop to make her forget about him.

Meanwhile, Abdullah threatened to suicide in public if he couldn't have her. People in the village decided for them to get married even though she was only fifteen years old. She wanted to complete her education first. Unfortunately, she was forced to marry by her parents.

Her mother-in-law didn't like that Prapti was from a poor family. Furiously, she made Prapti do all the house chores and didn't let her eat proper meals. She starved and overworked her. She treated her like garbage.

Meanwhile, her husband Abdullah became a drug-addict. He also abused her as he pleased. She home-tutored and grew vegetables to earn money so that she could continue her education, but her father-in-law stole her money. Yet, she didn't give up and passed the national exam, Secondary School Certificate.

During her time in college, she became pregnant. Her mother-in-law noticed it first. She stopped giving her meals, and then one day, she beat her to the point her bones broke and then left her to die. A neighbor saw her and called her father. Prapti was taken to the hospital. The police visited her, but she didn't report her huband out of love. After she recovered, she stayed with her parents.

She was being abused by her family while living with them. She borrowed textbooks from a classmate and studied to take the Higher School Certificate. Five days after giving birth to her son, Arnob, she took the exam. When she passed, everyone congratulated her. Afterward, she started working under R.D.R.S. Bangladesh, and started a small business.

Abdullah noticed her having a better life and called her back only to struck her with a rod, and then forcefully made her drink poison. She was worried about Arnob even though she was in so much pain. She was rescued, but she still didn't testify against her husband.

Later, being abused by her elder brother, she tried to commit suicide, but she didn't, becasue of Arnob. Then Abdullah asked her for a divorce so that he didn't have to give her alimony. Since she loved him even after all the tortures, she complied with his request.

Now, she lives in Dhaka city with her son. She has a flourishing small business, and Arnob is attending school. Despite all the tortures she went through, she decided to fight for herself and her son to have a better life.