Browsing Tag: Dowry

Although society protests against dowry, many many Sikhs individually still continue to encourage it.This practice is not confined to Sikhs alone but throughout the Indian sub continent.But in Sikhi, it has been clearly prohibited, and places women on an equal footing with men. Although religiously banned, it is culturally ingrained and many find it hard to let go of this gruesome practice of dahez.

India is going through a pleasant convulsion. Fathers across India are tweeting selfies with their daughters to make Indians realize that girls are as precious as boys.

Dowry is an age old custom in India. Money or property is something of bygone days. At one time cows and goats were also considered dowry. Today sponsorship to USA or ticket is much sought after as dowry.

In May 2010, I saw my father crying. When I got to know it was due to dowry demands from my prospective husband's family, I decided I didn't want to go ahead with the marriage that was rapidly approaching...

Sadasat Simran talks about the reaction in India about him having a daughter. People tell him "don't worry". However, having a daughter is a blessing.

Forced weddings and ‘honor’ killings aren’t just a developing-world issue. New research shows how it happens in England and the United States.

The report, therefore, recommended to the ministries to find ways and means to regulate high expenses for the wedding ceremony. "The evil of dowry is one of the vital causes leading to low status of girl child in the society. Unfortunately, the practice of dowry is still prevalent. The committee is unhappy that this law enacted in 1961 has been unable to check the evil of dowry in the society."

That was then, it is times today that scare me, the devaluation of social fabric scares me…. I would like to ask these ‘honorable men’ of the patriarchal set uu. . . Are our daughters children of lesser God?

At his daughter’s wedding last year when Jaswant Singh decided to organize a blood donation camp to welcome the bridegroom’s “baraat”, people in Kot Shamer village in Bathinda district in Punjab were pleasantly surprised. On the wedding invitation card he mentioned that instead of offering “shagun” in money, his guests would donate blood.

A velvet-bound album of wedding photographs and two unused train tickets for her honeymoon are the only remnants of Amanjyot Kaur’s marriage and the dream of a new life in Canada.