Of Filthy Hindus and Greed
By Sid Harth
Of Filthy Hindus and Greed
Rahul Bedi's report from Delhi regarding a mini crisis in a special cell for Mothers-in-law sent to prison for harassing, threatening and intimidating their daughters-in-la is disturbing as such. What is more that women thus sent to jail are not only not admitting to their heinous crimes but they deny any and all charges against them as trumped up.
Filthy Hindus of America are not any different than filthy Hindus of India. The difference, if any, is in degree. Village women have no education, no understanding and no desire to make the lives of their daughter-in-law happy. Those who migrated some thirty to forty years before new computer coolies started arriving have nearly adjusted to the American life styles. Such immigrants have allowed their children to choose their mates. That is the only right way to get things done.
The computer coolies, however, with all that fancy money freely flowing have been a target of the rich parents of suitable girls. This is a deadly combination. Supply is low and demand for those who have jobs in the USA is great. The market requires that other than a personal preference, boys are asking and getting fancy dowries.
The racket goes something like this. Parents of the boys seek alliances from Indian fathers of the brides. Bio data, photo and such information is passed to the boy. Boy picks and chooses a girl or selects couple of girls without making a formal commitment. The boy comes home on a short leave, usually a week. Things are bargained and a quick, crass and legal wedding takes place for the sole convenience of getting visas and travel papers for a new bride.
Boy leaves for his job in America leaving his new bride at his parent's place. Here is where the harassment starts and sometimes ends. The new bride is pressed for more and more money to solve legal tangles and any imaginable items which were not on the table before wedding took place. Eager to join her husband, bride puts pressure on her parents and the smooth flow of money comes to the boy's parents. The boy has no indication that his parents are fleecing his wife behind his back. The bride is reluctant to disclose the details to a man she hardly knows.
Excesses take place. Delays in processing papers, interminable wait and longing to consummated the marriage, distress, depression and all other worrisome side effects force the bride to commit suicide. This is a scenario, not a substantially proven case of specific crime.
When are these filthy Hindus going to learn that monetary exchange in weddings are at the sole pleasure of bride's parents and not a "Boy" tax to be collected by boys' mothers?
By Rahul Bedi in Delhi
A special jail wing in India's capital, Delhi, for mothers-in-law arrested for using threats to demand excessive dowries faces overcrowding.
"The swift inflow of mothers-in-law into the wing means . . . Tihar jail has stretched capacity to the maximum," an official said.
She said the 18-month old "mothers-in-law" section, the only one of its kind in the country, presently housed 150 women, some 50 more than it had space to accommodate.
All the mothers-in-law - mostly in the 50-60 age group - were isolated from other inmates as they were not "habitual" criminals.
Officials said they constituted a third of the total number of women prisoners in Tihar jail.
'Framed'
A majority of the inmates claimed to have been "framed" - innocent victims of the "evil machinations" of their wily daughters-in-law who had successfully duped their guileless sons into conspiring against their mothers.
The increasing number of inmates . . . is indicative of how serious dowry demands have become in consumer hungry middle-class Indian families.
Lawyer Malavika Rajkoti
Some of the younger mothers-in-law, however, complained that several of the older ones had not changed and were constantly bossing them around.
"The increasing number of inmates in the mothers-in-law ward at Tihar jail is indicative of how serious dowry demands have become in consumer hungry middle-class Indian families," said Malavika Rajkotia, a lawyer specialising in women issues.
Consumer lust
Many parents believed that "squeezing" dowry out of the hapless bride was the quickest way of satisfying their consumer needs and incessantly harassed her to meet their demands, Ms Rajkotia declared.
Over 12,612 dowry deaths were recorded across India in 1998 and 1999, the largest number in the eastern states of Uttar Pradesh (2,229) and Bihar (1,039), considered the most backward.
Women are expected to bring money and goods when they marry
When the bride refused to satisfy demands by her in-laws for money and goods, she was starved, administered frequent beatings and often "jailed" inside the house.
If the unfortunate bride's family declined to pay up, many parents, in connivance with their sons, then doused her with paraffin and set her alight, claiming that she caught fire whilst cooking.
In the early 1980s, such deaths became so common that anti-dowry activists forced the government to change existing laws.
Today any such death within seven years of marriage is deemed unnatural, and a case of murder can be registered against the husband and his parents.
If convicted, prison sentences can stretch to 14 years.
"But hundreds of cases go unreported " Ms Rajkotia said.
Mother's boys
Social commentators say Indian men have an "umbilical attachment " to their mothers that no society has.
From birth the boy child is conditioned to expect that his every wish will be fulfilled
Social affairs writer Lalita Pannicker
"From birth the boy child is conditioned to expect that his every wish will be fulfilled and the very status of parents depends on how many sons they have," said Lalita Pannicker, a senior editor with the Times of India who writes on social issues.
"'The girl child, neglected from birth expects little from life " Ms Panicker said.
"And by the time she is an adult she has lost most of her self-respect and self-worth and is conditioned to accept humiliation heaped upon her," she added.
Sid Harth..."Hindu rascals must be evicted from the United States of America as they are filthy shitworms, no less, no more."
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