It was the year 1998. Rita, a young woman of 22 years, was married off to Gopal Paul. She lived at her in-laws for two years, until the September of 2000. She was only 24 years old when she had become the survivor of a deadly acid attack.

Time flew and Rita had a good life for the next two years that she got married. One fine day she caught her mother-in-law having an illicit affair with another man. She did what she felt right. She revealed it to the family members, ... and bore the brunt of it. Little did she know that she’d be silenced forever for coming out with the truth. To keep her quite, on the fateful day, her husband and her mother-in-law forcefully made her gulp down one litre of acid. Her insides were burned, including her vocal cord. But she was a fighter. She did raise her voice against such a heinous crime. Although she could not speak she gave in writing what she had endured along with the names of the perpetrators—her husband and her mother-in-law.

Today, she lives with her widowed mother and is struggling to make ends meet. Even in such serious economical conditions she underwent treatment at the AIIMS, Delhi, with the help of a few kind hearted people and organizations. However, she can still hardly speak.