Ruqayya and Ramsha’s Her Story: Degrees, Dreams & Double Standards 🎙️ Ruqayya’s POV – Opening Monologue “You need to study so you can stand on your own two feet one day.”That’s what Ammi always said, especially when Abba was in one of his moods and the house fell silent in fear.So I did what every obedient South Asian daughter does.I stayed up late. I coloured the margins of my textbooks with dreams.I topped the board.And then…I graduated with distinction.And the day I walked across the stage with my degree in hand, guess what the aunty next door asked my mother?“Mashallah! But now we must find a boy, na?” All that…