You cannot reason with Barbarians. Expect them to express remorse. Realise their folly. And hug you. And everybody can happily live ever after. This Naxal problem won’t be solved just by EVMs.
This is the eighth dowry-related death in 24 hours, yet there's no outrage or viral posts from major meme pages that share thousands of misogynistic "dank" memes claiming mEn aRe nOt sAfe and all.
In 2016, sisters Nikki and Kanchan married brothers Vipin and Mohit Bhati in Gr Noida. Their parents gave a Scorpio, Royal Enfield, cash and gold as dowry, payment for a dignified life they hoped for their daughters.
Instead, both brothers revealed themselves as monsters. They reduced their wives to slaves, ignored their calls, stayed out all night, and when questioned, lashed back with violence. They flaunted affairs openly, and when confronted, they beat their wives into silence.
The demands escalated: ₹36 lakh more. When the parents couldn’t meet it, the sisters were further tortured, mentally, physically, relentlessly. “Adjust,” their parents advised, like countless others do, as if adjustment could cure brutality. Nikki even gave birth to a son, a child who grew up watching his mother being broken in front of him.
Then came Thursday. Nikki was unwell, hooked to an IV drip. That didn’t stop Vipin. Along with his mother, he beat her mercilessly. Then, as her little boy stood frozen in horror, Vipin doused Nikki in petrol and set her ablaze. Kanchan tried to save her sister, but she too was beaten back. The in-laws spun it as suicide.
Vipin, unrepentant, even had the audacity to post on Instagram after killing her: “Why did you leave me, Nikki? Mujhe bata to deti kya dukh tha. The world calls me a killer. Mere saath bahut galat ho raha hai tere jaane ke baad.”
But Kanchan had captured a few seconds of hell, a video of Nikki’s final moments, beaten and burned alive. That clip, now viral, ripped open the truth.
Men like Vipin and Mohit, and their mother are not just criminals, they are parasites in human skin, leeches who feed on dowry, predators who crush women, cowards who hide behind family honor while destroying families. No less than capital punishment.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them.”
Listen to the son who watched his father beat up and set his mother on fire over dowry. And then think of all the braindead people who compare dowry and alimony.
A woman was burnt alive by her husband after 9 years of marriage, 2 kids & despite receiving a sizable dowry upon marriage, over a second, third, fourth or more dowry & some men on X still managed to turn it into a randwa rona ceremony over alimony & how they're the real victims.
Regardless of whether it ruffled feathers or got folks frothing at the mouth, SC's judgements on pigeons and dogs being hazardous to public health and safety are the most pro-people judgements in a long, long time.
Stands to reason that uncommoners are up in arms against them.
Over 10,000 get bitten by dogs every day in India
But the actual number could be much higher. If you just look at the number of #rabies deaths, the figures are startling. The government figure for rabies deaths in 2022 is just 21. #WHO, using govt data and other Indian sources, says 305 died of rabies in the same year. But WHO also says that its estimate of rabies deaths in India for 2022 is actually 18,000.
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I love dogs I have even adopted strays myself.
But I also know people who have been bitten badly by them. I personally take longer routes just to avoid stray dogs, especially in the early morning or late at night.
To those who say “Just vaccinate them” will that stop them from biting? No. We don’t even want those teeth on our bones.
It’s easy to protest when you’ve never suffered. If you’re fine with being bitten, that’s your choice but don’t put other people’s lives in danger.
And for those who say “There are bigger issues in the country” this is a big issue. It affects a lot of people. Just because it doesn’t impact you doesn’t make it unimportant.
#straydogs #SupremeCourt
The "stray dog" issue sums up India in a nutshell.
Parliament should be legislating on this but they want to pass the buck.
Courts interfere in the executive domain and pass impractical orders.
Municipal corporations are either corrupt or don't have the resources to deal with the problem.
Citizen groups are making "moral" arguments as if people in Singapore, Japan or half the world don't have compassion - only they have compassion.
The case studies of how others solved for it and what kind of resources it takes - are all accessible to everyone. But a problem that has been "solved" for, by most in the world - will go nowhere in India.
Just like many other civic issues - garbage disposal, parking, road construction - it's a long list.
The order will be stayed - gyaan will be given - and nothing will change.
When the topic is stray dogs, suddenly people are dragging in rape statistics, road accidents, domestic violence, or alimony. It’s the same rhetorical deflection you see in other debates..
> Talk about dowry, someone jumps to fake domestic violence cases.
> Talk about fake domestic violence cases, someome pulls in dowry deaths.
> Talk about road safety,someone says, “but rapes happen too.”
It’s not about solving the issue, it’s about emotionally hijacking the conversation so the original point gets buried under unrelated outrage.... In this case, the SC order is about stray dogs and public safety. Bringing up rape or accidents here is just misdirection, as if solving one problem means we can’t address another. By that logic, no problem would ever get solved....
I will never judge a person who breaks down in tears over something small. Because I know very well that they are not crying for that reason, but for everything they have been holding inside until that moment