DASTAK

A blind girl lives alone with her father at a cottage in a lonely area. She has no
siblings and her mother is dead. After her father leaves for office one day, two young eve-teasers sneak
into the courtyard of the cottage and ogle her and whistle at her from outside the windows in the cottage
and knock at its main gate with the intention of entering into her house and molesting her. This frightens
the girl enormously, but soon the boys flee when a courier boy arrives at the cottage to deliver a letter.
The girl is relieved as the knocking stops. But soon after, when the courier boy knocks at the gate, she
mistakes it to be the knock of her teasers and resolves to retaliate. She picks up an iron rod in her house,
proceeds to the gate, opens it and hits the courier boy to death.

1925

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