Dowry

Despite the existence of several socio-feminist movements and the passing of laws in1961, declaring dowry (money & wealth transactions in marriages by coercion between the bride & the groom) illegal, India still witnesses horrific perpiteration of crime on women, as a subsequence of inadequate dowry payments in the marriages.

Most of us need no introduction to why dowry is a threat and what obvious as well as subtle forms of its menace continue to terrorize the destiny of Indian girls and their families.

I believe most of us are socially aware people who feel deeply pained with ongoing shameless and condemnable practice of dowry in our society.

I find this evil in its strongest form (in our community) in and around Delhi & NCR. A few reasons I see for it are - acquirement of land leading to flow of money, personal jealous comparison with relatives or known ones and fake social status etc. I see illiteracy as a main cause behind all this. By illiteracy I mean, illiteracy of thoughts, of moral values and humanity.

Very often we boast (some criticize) that we are living in an ultra modern society, a few go to an extent of hitting women publically for exercising their so called fundamental right. But are we really civilized..??

Every year thousands of girls are being killed because of this dowry. I think this can be eradicated by youths only. My dear community men please unite against this and say we can change this trend. We can stop dowry. My dear friends please unite against this national bug. Youth can change the world, then what this dowry is in front of youth..?? Say we will eradicate this disease.

The dowry system which is in practice to this day, although been declared illegal, had led to female infanticides, sufferings, discriminations and making families to loose their wealth.

For all of us who have taken up arms in the battle against dowry, today we begin winning the fight, let us fight against this evil. I feel, it is high time that the educated youth community react against the anti social culture of dowry.

                                            "I Must Do It"

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "something must be done". Accepting dowry is equally bad as demanding dowry. In our community, it is given different names like - gift to a daughter, love from parents etc. No matter how it is demanded or accepted, it is after all dowry which is polluting whole society and forcing a middle class common man to do, if not better, atleast equal to his knowns.

Please stop this trend and be a part of this change..!!