Chhapaak: Chapter Odisha | Pramodini Roul (Rani)

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At first, she thought that someone had poured a glass of burning water on her face. She was flinching in pain. She couldn't open her eyes, but she could sense the fear, shock and the unfamiliarity in the faces of her mother and younger sister. There were fumes coming off her body. No one dared to touch her. At that instance, all that she yearned for was some water to cool her burns. But the people around her feared that water could worsen her pain. Later, she heard them say that she'd turned blue instantly and her family thought that she had been poisoned.

At 16, Manini Bisoyi had not heard of an acid attack was. A few days earlier, when a jilted lover told her that he would "destroy her life in the worst possible way such that she could never do anything with her life," she never expected him to barge into her home and pour a bottle of acid on her face. "I was left without any medical help or first aid for a whole night. No auto wallah was ready to take me to the hospital, fearing that the police would summon them. Later, the next morning, I was taken to a hospital nearby," she says.
Inexperienced as they were at treating acid burns, Manini's face was bandaged by the hospital staff for a week, instead of the correct protocol - cleaning the burns with water. A week later, when she was transferred to a bigger hospital, the burns had caused infections. A few days before he threw acid on Manini, the man who she once loved had also burned her class X certificates. He wanted to do all everything is his power to make sure that her life came to a standstill. A life ahead was unthinkable for Manini at that point. This was three years ago.
It was around the same time that she met fellow acid attack survivor Pramodini Roul, who had been attacked by an army man 10 years ago. After being in a coma, Pramodini got a second chance at life, where she made sure that her attacker was tried and imprisoned. She also started working towards rehabilitating other acid attack survivors in Odisha. Whenever she heard of a case of acid attack, she visited the survivor personally and did her best to help them out.
"Manini wanted to start working around the time that I met her. She was under the impression that her life was over and even contemplated suicide," says Pramodini. "But she was just 17 then. She had so much to do in life. I insisted that she restarts her schooling," she adds. Pramodini, who'd also interned with a law firm in Delhi had applied for Manini's duplicate school certificate. "We're now waiting for the conduct certificate to reach us. Once that is done, she can go back to school," says Pramodini.
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