Taking a road less travelled is not easy. Sometimes the whole of society stands against you. But no such fear deterred Rekha K.C. of Koorkenchery, a village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, the first woman in the country to go fishing in the deep waters of the outer sea. Amidst prevailing social stigmas, 45-year-old Rekha has been fishing in these waters with her husband Karthikeyan for ten years. “Although the sea is considered mother and goddess, our society forbids a woman from entering the sea,” she says. “I faced strong opposition...they even said it would destroy the sea. There were even times when our nets were damaged,” she adds.