Patriarchy anyone?

The BBC reports this story about a low caste woman who stripped to her underwear to protest physical abuse by her husband's family for not providing a dowry. The story notes:

"Although paying and accepting a dowry has been illegal in India for more than 40 years, it still goes on.

Official estimates show that every year almost 7,000 women are killed by their spouses and in-laws because of inadequate dowry payments."

Meanwhile, over on the Times of India the debate is whether Pooja is victim or culprit.

In another heartbreaking story from the Asian subcontinent, Hindu widows thrown out of their homes upon the death of their husband flee to the "holy city "of Vrindavan to die.