“It was a mistake to well educate my daughter and send her to the top IIT. Instead, I should have saved all the money spent for her education for her dowry,” said d, pressed Manoj Devak, waiting outside a the dumb mortuary on a hot summer evening in late May.The reason is that  doctors were carrying out an autopsy on his daughter Manjula.She is no  ordinary a well educated, a civil engineer and a PhD scholar at the coveted IIT Delhi.But she  hanged herself from the ceiling fan of her hostel room.

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Manjula was one  among 54 women in Delhi who died of different reasons between January and June.But the reason for them getting bullied is  for more dowry, a toxic custom of brides’ .Though it is outlawed by IPC but it continues to be as much a social reality and still prevails as it was five decades ago.

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Women as educated as Manjula are as likely to be harassed for dowry the same cheap way as a woman from an low profile background married to a rickshaw puller. The spectrum of dowry is getting wider – from a gas cylinder worth around Rs 1,500 to a top end car like Audi Q5 SUV and Rs 2.5 crore solid cash .The society actually values the woman’s economic status with her dowry shame!!


 


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