By Tania Tharasingh
“If you run away again, you impudent child, I will tie you to the goddess Kali tonight!” screamed the devadasi, her eyes gleaming with anger. Trembling with fear, the little girl slipped into a dark corner of the dirty temple and tried to hide from the woman assigned to train the little temple prostitutes.
The thought of spending a night tied to the fearful-looking Kali paralyzed the child with terror. I will leave this place, never to come back! she determined.
It was a dismal, cloudy afternoon. The seven-year-old stole across the dank room, slipped through the door of the temple, and then tiptoed away until she reached a pathway leading to the jungle, where she broke into a frantic run. Later that night, a kind lady found her standing in front of a church.
The next morning, the child was escorted into a room where a woman sat
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Tania Tharasingh is from southern India. She graduated from Hartland College with a major in Christian Publications Management.