Why is it that only such extreme incidents can give people reason to believe that marriage can be very very very dangerous for women? Why do we not see the everyday normalised misogyny and abuse that we take for granted?

I just ended an emotionally abusive relationship and feel so much lighter; I should have done this long ago!

She was allowed to go back only after her brother-in-law, at the behest of her elder sister, intervened. ‘He was a patriarchal man; he couldn’t say no to his son-in-law.’

Love should not make you feel like you are walking on eggshells, second guess yourself all the time, or dim your spirit. It certainly should not make you feel humiliated or unworthy.

Men yell at other men all the time. Sometimes, the men even come to blows. But almost never is a video shot and made viral. And even less is a complaint made, unless there was physical violence.