Urvashi was alone in her room that night. Her mother-in-law was attending a charity ball. Urvashi was not interested in such social dos. She looked at herself in the mirror. Her face was still beautiful after the surgery, but the rest of her body needed many more operations. She slipped out of her night gown, but she could not bear to look at herself. Her skin below her waist had been badly burnt during the accident and it looked awful now with ugly scars. Her doctor had advised her to go for plastic surgery, but that would take many visits to hospital. Besides there were a lot of risks and complications involved. The exceptionally high cost was not the worry. Her parents could afford it, but the risks that came with it, according to the doctor, made her think twice. But then at times like
