Akkayya knew very well how she had suffered as she was not educated and not an employee. She didn’t have financial independence. She had to depend on her husband even for a few paise worth of karivepaku. She didn’t like to keep a girl at home without educating her. She thought that a woman would come to nothing if she didn’t have a degree and she would have to live under her husband’s thumb, like a scorpion under a slipper without it. So, she determined to send her daughter to college.
