Originally posted by: SundariP
Lot of such things happen in small places. We living in cities are unaware of this, and think it's regressive in 2022 to reduce women to baby making machines, but fact is it keeps happening to other women all around us.
And it's not like these women who go through these stupid rituals on the behest of family have no fight in them. But their inability is used against them, to guilt and torture them. Add to that social dependence on in-laws and financial dependence on husband makes them take the torture silently. Even parents expect them to co operate with unreasonable demands of in-laws for the fear of society in case of broken marriages.
It's a vicious cycle.
The fact that people don't stop these and let it get through their head that this is kind of a crime towards others in the name of culture and identity makes it more of a horror story...
Let me share you a story: in Assam there's a large section of Biharis settled here and they don't easily marry their kids with the people from the state of Bihar though their relatives are there. I once asked my classmate Maharaj you guys are here in Assam and doesn't scoff of for Dahej but can't you tell your relatives in Bihar to stop these (those days a news of more than 5 brides burn down for Dahej was going on)
He said don't even ask, even if the guys study abroad then also when they will marry a girl from Bihar they will take Dahej... And if u ask why are you doing this? U are educated or studied outside your state... They will be like this is our Culture and the girl family must give money that's the rule why should we not take what we are given or get rid of our culture. We are Biharis...
So the Dahej is kind of associated with Culture now there and the guy who said this was my friend's cousin who studied his masters in Netherlands. His Dahej was a hefty amount coz larka is khaas studied abroad
Edited by MiuniS - 2 years ago
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