We The Women

No doubts, we aspired for a time when we could free the Indian society from the clinches of the suffocating tradition of Dowry, but at no time we wished for something as degrading as selling our daughters or supplying them for a few bucks. However, the sorry state of things is that we have reached [...]

I repeat, The Count your master’s known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed At starting is my object. My Last Duchess These lines tell us more about dowry than any drier article ever can. There are a few [...]