It is just past dusk. Rows of young girls, clad in white salwar kameezes and orange dupattas sit still, every eye on the lady at the podium before them. She is telling them about the perils of being too educated, only to have their heads in the clouds.

The camera inches closer to the girls’ faces. One nervously chews away at her lips as the speaker orders them to get the idea of equality of the sexes out of their heads immediately. “Can you really hide your natural weakness or character?” demands the speaker, as another girl gulps.