The episode begins with Madan Singh shouting at Asha and taunting her. Asha hears this and runs to her room and locks herself up in there. All the women stand knocking at the door asking Asha to open it. Madan Singh is also present at the scene and is still angry.
In the room Asha recollects all the instances where she has been taunted and insulted in the past including the incident with Dhongi Baba and the court case. In the meanwhile Shyam arrives home and hearing the women calling out to Asha, rushes to the scene. He learns the reason for which Asha locked herself up and shouts at Madan Singh for being so insensitive.
In the room Asha looks at her suitcases and walks towards them. Every one is still trying to convince her to come out when she herself opens the door. They all look wonder struck seeing her. Asha was dressed in colored clothes and jewellery.
Madan Singh looks all the more angry. Asha walks up to him and tells him that she is ashamed of the way she has been living so far and hence as Madan Singh told her, she has killed the old Asha to be this new one. She also says that she understands that being a widow, she is not supposed to wear colored clothes. But at the same time she also fails to understand how the colour of clothes determines if a person is good or bad, pure or not pure. She has been pondering on these doubts of hers and she has concluded that "Widhwa (widow) Dharam" is not God's will, its only the making of society to suppress widows and prevent them from thinking for themselves. She also tells Madan Singh that when a father would not want his child to be hurt in anyway or punished for something she ha [...]
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