Let's hold accountable the husbands and in-laws who callously murder women when dissatisfied with the dowry, and parents who raise daughters to be 'good wives and daughters in law'.

What do you do when your abuser is your own husband? And you have to prove to society, time and again, that yes, it was abuse?

I am married to a man who knows only how to bow to his mother's wishes, who needs to take his mother's permission even to enter his wife's bedroom.

Neelu Mehta's brutal murder by her husband has shaken people to their core. How many shocking incidents do we need to bring about change?

And then she slightly slips aside her blouse from her shoulder, and I start as I see the red brown bruises. I immediately ask, "Who did this? Your husband?