You enter into this world happily Parents welcome you as a goddess They bring you up as delicate as a flower They teach you how to be traditional You are busy with studies and friends They fix your marriage in a hurry You want to complete your studies You don't know how to convince They give assets/money to bridegroom to set a new home for you You start a new turn with simple desires Greedy life partner demands more luxuries He thrashes you mercilessly to warn parents Parents afraid of society You have neither courage to walk away from marriage Nor give trouble to parents You don't find any support and comfort You end your life in search of peace Can I blame parents for not protecting you from brutal person ? Or can I blame patriarchal society for wild customs/traditions? [Vismaya’s dowry harassment death shocks Kerala. More evidences emerge against husband made me wrote this and we still hear this kind of miserable stories now and then]
Nice one As Rihana said in that thread, this “ log kya kahenge “ feeling is the ultimate villain in most of the cases... When there is physical abuse in marriage, girls should be taught to run away and not look back or have second thoughts...
Thanks Sir for your comments. Those thoughts were in my mind since my college days that's why I didn't take much time to put them in words.
Yes, the main problem in India is people give more importance to society than their own feelings and safety. We have to learn Live and let live. Change has to come in all.
As long as we put boys on a pedestal (even useless ones), these cases will only increase. Girl who has everything is pressured to marry and useless boy and his useless family believe they are doing Girl and her Family a favor. I see it around me. We blame Society but we ARE Society!