In August last year, Instagram saw a new entrant when a confident, curly-haired, and bright-eyed woman started talking about what her mother went through while getting a divorce. Vedika Dave, aka @vedika_llb, is a advocate who is currently practising in Chandigarh, in the high court of Punjab and Haryana, and has become the voice of lakhs of adults who end up in the middle of a marital dispute between their parents. She brings to light the mental and physical trauma both women and men go through during a divorce.

Dave is a Mumbai girl  who’s biological father committed bank frauds and forgery, trapped her mom and absconded from the country. Her mom eventually married again and within a very short time span he blindsided her mom by filing for divorce on grounds of cruelty. It was because this case went on for 10 years that Dave studied law and successfully delivered final arguments right after graduation without a license to practice in this case.