Waheeda could not explain how she reached the final, terrible resolution to set herself on fire.
She remembered the months of beatings and the abuse by her brothers-in-law, but the moments before she acted are now clouded by 40 days of pain.
Whether she was driven to actually kill herself, or just bring attention to her suffering, she could not say.
All she could recall was pouring fuel over her legs outside the room where her in-laws were gathered in their modest home and igniting her clothes with a match. ...