Her name is Smriti Singh.
She met Anshuman on the first day of engineering college. Love at first sight. He got selected to AFMC a month later. They maintained a long distance relationship for 8 years.
They married on February 10 2023.
Two months later he was posted to Siachen.
On the night of July 19 2023 a fire broke out at the ammunition dump where he was stationed. Captain Anshuman Singh ran in to rescue his fellow soldiers. The fire spread to the medical room. He went back in to retrieve life saving medicines.
He did not come back out.
He was 26 years old.
On July 5 2024 Smriti stood at Rashtrapati Bhavan before President Droupadi Murmu. She received the Kirti Chakra. India’s second highest peacetime gallantry award. On her husband’s behalf.
She held back tears. She said this.
I considered myself his top priority. Turns out I was just a little behind India.
India watched and wept.
Then his parents gave interviews.
They said she was married for only five months. That she had no children. That she had walked away with the money. That she should marry their younger son if she wanted to stay in the family.
The internet turned on Smriti overnight.
Gold digger. Opportunist. Not a real wife.
Anshuman had named Smriti as his next of kin in his own will. His legal right. His choice. The Army confirmed this. The pension went to her because he chose her.
She did not speak. She did not retaliate.
She had lost her husband after two months of marriage. She stood alone at Rashtrapati Bhavan. She accepted his medal. She stayed silent when India called her a criminal for it.
She gave India her husband.
India gave her a character assassination.
Her name is Smriti Singh.
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"My wife wife just grew a baby for months, labored for hours and gave birth (something that can require various medical interventions like c-sections, etc requiring recovering).......but what about me 😭😭😭😭😭😭?" - a profoundly ignorant misogynistic chud
Shots were fired at his house, he was forced to leave his home, and he was bullied and now even talking about it is being called playing the card 😭😭
But my ancestors got bullied 5000 years ago is not card we've to give them reservations today
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It's a pattern.
the hatred for BJP and Modi is now morphing into hatred for India. just because you don’t like a particular party or a politician,doesn’t mean you start hating your own country.