Chokhatpur, a small village awaits Mr Akshath, a great Dare Stick player, who came to teach their children the game.

Akshath was enchanted by the beauty of the village, but even more impressive was how passionate and dedicated the girls of this village were to their work.

The man's eye was suddenly caught by a girl who was lifting all those field works faster and more vigorously than any other girls, her name was Dhurga.

On the next day, he saw Dhurga bring sticks and water to the place where they were practicing Dare Sticks. Silently, she watched kids in the neighborhood fight over a stick, and whoever don't threw their stick further will win.

"Are you interested in studying Dare Stick?", Akshath asked her.

Dhurga said with her head down: "No,I'm not."

"Why are none of the girls of your village come to practice or are you interested in something else?" Akshath asked.

Yes, We are compelled to be interested in cooking, feeding the family, household tasks, having children and those field works.

Dhurga asked Akshath, "Do you know the story of elephants and their rope?"

Those huge creatures were tied only to one leg by a short rope. There are no chains or cages. Even though it was obvious the elephants could, at any time, break free from their ropes, they won't.

When the elephants are very young and much smaller they use the same size rope to tie them, which, at their age, is sufficient to hold them.

As they grow up, they're conditioned to believe they won't be able to break away - since they weren't able to when they were younger.

Since they believe the rope can still hold them, they give up long before becoming mature.

Dhurga continued; "Sir, can you see those wonderful butterflies?"

Their life span is just a month, but that won't stop them, they are flying and enjoying their life, they give us pleasure and colour to our surroundings.

As humans, we live more years than them. Are we supposed to enjoy our life and fly like them?

We girls are raised to accept belief as a fact that cannot be changed or questioned. It then became our reality.

Akshath was speechless after hearing Dhurga's profound words.

The next morning, Dhurga saw some Dare Stick learning kids beating a small poor boy, so she ran to them and stopped those boys.

"How dare a woman raise her hands to us!" the kids said.

Akshath glared at them when they swung their sticks at her. "Dhurga," Akshath instructed, go and stand in the centre.

Dare Stick is a famous game but no one said that only men could play it.

He gave her a stick and asked her to fight with him. She did not hesitate, she fought as hard as she could.

The old people and rulers from that village came and stopped Dhurga and said: "Akshath Sir, please teach our boys to be powerful, not to the girls."

Akshath replied, without any practice, if she is this good, she will be a real player.

“We want to teach our girls how to be good women and not how to be strong women.  We allowed them to work in the field, and that's itself a big freedom we're giving them,” an old man said.

Akshath didn't respond, instead he went to Dhurga and asked, "Are you willing to come with me? I have confidence in you. By now, you should be prepared to overcome all the roadblocks in your life, so that you can fly as a butterfly for your dreams and help many other butterflies to achieve their dreams."

She returned to her village after four years.

Today, she is no longer a village girl but 'National Dare Stick player,Dhurga'.

Those who had vilified her as a witch, accused her family for not presenting her to the world as a calm and respected young lady, are looking at her with respect.

As she came close to them, she said, "I bought a piece of land in the middle of this village and I will build a school there so that all those girls who are ready to fly for their dreams will study there and they will stand with their heads held high in front of all the people who taught them how to down their heads".

''Our world needs strong women. Women who lift and build others, who love and are loved, women living bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.''