Women: At Home and Outside

Newly-married women being tor­tured to death for the sake of dowry has become such a common event these days that it has almost ceased to shock. And here, in the routine appearance of small in. significant paragraphs in the crime briefs column of newspapers of young women burning themselves ‘accidentally’ while working in the kitchen, lies the danger of our beginning to accept yet another form: of mind-boggling cruelty as inevitable. After all, there is a point beyond which horror ceases to horrify, the human mind’s capacity for intense emotions being limited. Besides, our newspapers rarely follow up these terse reports culled from the daily police bulletin, with detailed investigation. For, in the sensation-loving world of journalism even man biting dog would cease to be news if it happened day in and day out.