Dowry and Bride burning

Marriage very often is a financial transaction in India. 

With economic prosperity our greed has only grown. 

Rich and poor alike expect to make a small fortune when they get their sons married. Demands are often made on the bride’s family with not the least amount of compunction. 

It is no surprise then that this is one of the main reasons why families prefer to put girls to sleep in the womb. 

The cavernous greed of the groom’s family is sometimes not even satiated with the booty it acquires on marriage and iterative demands are made thereafter. 

The worst casualty in this is the dignity of the young woman as well as her family.Non fulfillment of demands sometimes spells death for the woman. 

According to the Indian National Crime Bureau reports there were about 6787 dowry death cases registered in India in 2005, a 46% jump over 1995 level of 4,648, which was 10-fold more than the figure of 400 deaths a year in the 80s.