CONJUGAL DISS

The headline of Flavia Agnes’ article dated May 6, Desperate Housewives, intelligently appropriates the name of a popular American sitcom to relate the macabre reality of suicides by young married women. Flavia correctly points out the need to stop categorising these suicides as dowry-related. For the stigma attached to reporting domestic abuse represses the victim, resulting in tragic suicides.

Aparajita Sen

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