She was buried alive. She was rescued. She showed up on Bigg Boss. And she won a Padma Shri. This is the inspiring story of Gulabo Sapera, a dancer from Rajasthan's Kalbelia tribe…
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00:00Our girls don't keep them.
00:02Our girls bury them as soon as they are born.
00:04Did you bury me?
00:10When I was asked in America,
00:12what is the name of this dance?
00:14I could have said Gulabo dance.
00:16But I said,
00:18I don't know the name of my society.
00:20So I said,
00:22the name of my dance is Sapera dance.
00:24I am dancing like a snake.
00:26So the name of my dance is Sapera.
00:28I will call it Gulabo dance.
00:30The name of my dance started from there.
00:32Because I didn't know the name of my dance.
00:34I used to dance like a snake.
00:36My life was saved because of my father.
00:38And my mother took me out of the earth.
00:40Our girls don't keep them.
00:42Our girls bury them as soon as they are born.
00:44The women they want,
00:46they bring them from Jalol.
00:48They buy a mall and bring them.
00:50They take care of them at home.
00:52Then they marry them.
00:54This has been our tradition for centuries.
00:56We dance like a snake.
00:58Our girls don't dance.
01:00Our girls don't keep them.
01:02They say,
01:04if you keep a girl,
01:06you have to marry her.
01:08You have to give her clothes.
01:10So they don't keep girls.
01:12So the girls bury them.
01:14I know,
01:16they buried me.
01:18I was born on the day of Dhanteras.
01:20I was buried as soon as I was born.
01:22My father was not at home.
01:24And the one who gave birth to me,
01:26those same women,
01:28took me and buried me.
01:30After that, my mother found out
01:32that I had a daughter and buried her.
01:34So my mother cried and begged them
01:36to tell me where my daughter's grave is.
01:38I will take her out and bring her.
01:40But those women didn't tell me.
01:42My aunt knew where my grave was.
01:44My aunt went to my mother
01:46and said,
01:48not now,
01:50bring her at night if you find her alive.
01:52My mother said,
01:54she will definitely find her.
01:56So I was buried at 7 in the night.
01:58And at midnight,
02:00my mother and my aunt
02:02buried me in the ground.
02:04They buried me.
02:06They dug me up.
02:08I was still breathing.
02:10My mother and my aunt
02:12brought me back.
02:14I was in my mother's womb for 9 months.
02:16I was in my mother's womb for 5 hours.
02:18So my mother is the earth.
02:20Do you know what they did?
02:22The society made me a dex.
02:24They told me to teach dance to my daughters.
02:26They told me to teach dance to my daughters.
02:28I said, where do you save your daughters?
02:30You kill everyone.
02:32You will learn dance when you have a daughter.
02:34I said, I will not kill anyone's daughter.
02:36I want roses in my house.
02:38I want roses in my house.
02:40I want roses.
02:42After coming back from America,
02:44your hard work,
02:46Manaji's hard work,
02:48your hard work,
02:50your hard work,
02:52saved my daughters.
02:54Today, I have 10 daughters in my house.
02:5615 daughters, 5 daughters, 6 daughters.
02:58That's my house.