A Dreadful Evil--Dowry
A Dreadful Evil--Dowry
As soon as I opened my eyes I saw the big and bold headline on the newspaper, “Dowry tales: Woman set on fire by husband, in-laws.”
According to reports, “24-year-old Jyoti died after she was allegedly set on fire by her husband and in-laws on Sunday as her parents could not meet dowry demand of 10000 dollars.” (live).
Day by day this dreadful evil is taking away so many lives. One dowry death is reported every 77 minutes.(Sinha)
Reading the Newspaper I remembered what Gandhi said,
“Any Young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonors womanhood.” - M. K. Gandhi (Majumdar 79).
Womanhood is being dishonored by this heinous deed, especially in sub continental societies, who are suffering from this social evil at the moment. The dowry system is prevalent virtually in all parts of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Dowry has been defined by a young lady as "the price paid by the parents for getting their daughters the post of a daughter-in-law"(Gupta). Parents pay huge sums of money so that their daughters may secure a satisfactory and permanent post. Unfortunately, the whole affair has assured the proportions of a scandal. The groom 's parents try to extract the maximum from a matrimonial alliance. They insist on receiving huge amount of cash, luxury items like television sets, VCR 's, refrigerators, cars, scooters and in certain cases even houses. Cases of harassment exist where young brides are losing all of their savings on account of dowries multiplying during the recent years.
Giving away a daughter in marriage is called 'Kannyadaan '. Here ‘Kannya” means ‘Girl’ and ‘Daan’ means ‘to give away something permanently’. However people believe that woman and man are not equal, so when a woman is married she has to bring something valuable to adjust her weight/value with the man. Some people also think that it will help the bride-groom to ensure a better future for his
As soon as I opened my eyes I saw the big and bold headline on the newspaper, “Dowry tales: Woman set on fire by husband, in-laws.”
According to reports, “24-year-old Jyoti died after she was allegedly set on fire by her husband and in-laws on Sunday as her parents could not meet dowry demand of 10000 dollars.” (live).
Day by day this dreadful evil is taking away so many lives. One dowry death is reported every 77 minutes.(Sinha)
Reading the Newspaper I remembered what Gandhi said,
“Any Young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonors womanhood.” - M. K. Gandhi (Majumdar 79).
Womanhood is being dishonored by this heinous deed, especially in sub continental societies, who are suffering from this social evil at the moment. The dowry system is prevalent virtually in all parts of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Dowry has been defined by a young lady as "the price paid by the parents for getting their daughters the post of a daughter-in-law"(Gupta). Parents pay huge sums of money so that their daughters may secure a satisfactory and permanent post. Unfortunately, the whole affair has assured the proportions of a scandal. The groom 's parents try to extract the maximum from a matrimonial alliance. They insist on receiving huge amount of cash, luxury items like television sets, VCR 's, refrigerators, cars, scooters and in certain cases even houses. Cases of harassment exist where young brides are losing all of their savings on account of dowries multiplying during the recent years.
Giving away a daughter in marriage is called 'Kannyadaan '. Here ‘Kannya” means ‘Girl’ and ‘Daan’ means ‘to give away something permanently’. However people believe that woman and man are not equal, so when a woman is married she has to bring something valuable to adjust her weight/value with the man. Some people also think that it will help the bride-groom to ensure a better future for his
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