| Wife burning is a heinous crime in India. | | | | that palpable dead look of this bride. |
| Women are liberated now, but still they are not free | | | | If, by god's grace women is saved from burning for |
| from the fire of atrocities. Either its dowry or a Sati | | | | dowry is a custom in which widow is forced to |
| ritual, people can manifest women drowned in fire. | | | | sacrifice her life at her husband's funeral pyres. |
| Women are always exploited and underestimated | | | | Though the research proves that the ritual was |
| since past many years. The two common practice of | | | | voluntary, where the woman decides whether to end |
| burning wife are: | | | | her life with her husband after his death or live a life. |
| With so much pomp & show and fun & frolic, the | | | | But in some villages of north-India and by some |
| groom's parent welcomes the bride in their house. | | | | insane, lumpish and orthodox people the widows |
| The girl leaves her parents house with tears in her | | | | were forced to immolate. The ritual of Sati is much |
| eyes and a trust in her heart for her life partner. The | | | | prevalent in the villages of Rajasthan in north-India |
| Indian girl not only gets married to a boy but she | | | | and also in some castes of Bengal in east-India. In |
| considers the groom's family as her. But what a plight | | | | some communities, where the ruler had more than |
| of this young bride, who is surrounded by the | | | | one wife, only the preferred wife was immolated |
| unfamiliar people who has an eagle's eye on her | | | | with her husband. |
| trousseau. For them she is a blank check, a hen who'll | | | | This custom was tried to ban by some Mughal rulers |
| deliver a gold egg for them daily. | | | | and through the dedicated fight by Raja Ram Mohan |
| Harassment starts after few days. Her dedicated | | | | Roy. British outlawed this custom in 1829. |
| duties resulted as a Sisyphean. Sarcastic remarks, | | | | Let it be Dowry or Sati, the women are burning like a |
| rude behavior and castigating her now and then. | | | | ball of fire due to the reasons that they are |
| Finally, that horrifying day arrives when the poor girl | | | | considered a symbol of pity. Some parents even get |
| who was going through this intense terror at every | | | | into chagrin with the birth of a girl child. Sons are |
| moment is either maimed or killed. She is drained with | | | | more pampered than the daughters and husbands |
| gasoline or any such inflammable material and burnt | | | | are literally the god for their wives. |
| to ashes. But a saga is, the social stigma in India | | | | If not exactly burning for dowry or as sati, but |
| against those parents who support their daughter or | | | | women in India were and will suffer harassment |
| file a case against her in-laws or/and husband. Some | | | | either physically, emotionally or mentally, until or |
| parents too leave their daughter on her fate at her | | | | unless her parent feel proud to be the father and |
| in-laws place and with cruel husband. She is expected | | | | mother of a daughter. |
| to lead her life there till death. Nobody pay heed to | | | | |