Dowry System in India
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I believe that dowry system is the greatest curse of the Indian society. Demanding cash, jewellery and costly items of furniture like refrigerators, Television sets, mobile-phones, washing machines and other valuables is still most common in different parts of India by the bride groom during a marriage.
Due to dowry system, the sacred affair of marriage is destroyed and it is turned to a business deal. The brides are placed on the same class as those of cattle. The ugliest thing of this system is that the richer the family of the bride groom the higher is their demand. A marriage life that starts with such a business deal can never by happy. The parents of the brides are put to inhuman pressure for a handsome dowry in kind or cash whatever it may be. All the noble virtues of human beings like love, affection, sense of equality, liberal motive, gentleness, sympathy, kindness etc. are buried like rotten corpses. This system is found in both rich and poor community.
Therefore, it is high time to take effective steps against this social evil. It can be rooted out by generating public opinion against it. At the same time it is essential to pass strict laws for the exemplary punishment of the offenders. I hope, right thinking people will come forward to raise their voice against the Dowry System in India.
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Dowry
The dowry system is an age old system and a peculiar phenomenon of the Indian society. It is, as today, a curse to the society. Dowry is the name given to all that, the parents of a girl give to her when she gets married. At the face of it, the system seems quite appropriate, healthy and logical, for, in this simple way, the parents of the girl help her in setting a new home. So far, so good and, originally also the purpose of dowry was very justified and understandable. This is because, taking advantage of the system, the parents of the boys/have started demanding dowry. Parents labour all their lives to give their daughter a dowry that will suffice for the home she weds into, yet, the demands for ‘more’ keep coming, and the brides keep suffering and bearing torture because society does not look upon divorce as a feasible option. If the dowry system needs to be done away with-marriage too needs introspection. It is imperative that women from middle class families become economically independent.
