From: Partha Banerjee > To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net> Newgroups: soc.religion.hindu>
Subject: BRIDE BURNING IN INDIA: A SHAME FOR HINDUISM: ACT NOW
Hinduism has now experienced a terrible brutality on its women: bride> burning and dowry deaths have now spread in Indian Hindu populations> like the plague. This is a disgrace to our country and religion and we> must act now to stop this tragedy.> > In spite of the fact that wife battering is a worldwide phenomenon> (and the western world is no exception), in India and some adjoining> countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, brides are being killed> upon demands of dowry. The practice has rapidly increased over the> past ten years and although it has been concentrated in the Hindu> heartland of north India (Delhi, Hariyana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh,> Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan), it is spreading at an alarming rate> throughout the subcontinent. Traditionally dowry-free Islamic> countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh have also witnessed quite a> few cases of this extreme form of violence against women...read more
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