The story is now part of a short-story collection available in black-white and coloured prints and as an ebook. I will share the links soon.
My Dear Wife
The story is now part of a short-story collection available in black-white and coloured prints and as an ebook. I will share the links soon.
Short Stories | Fish-eye Perspective 
Chilling. I recently read an article comparing the brain damage of football players with the same brain damage to battered wives. Very depressing since the players choose to play and the women don’t
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Weird part is that nobody steps in to stop this. They let the violence happen over and over again, until the women take matters in their own hands one way or the other.
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We are taught to overlook it and ignore it. That does seem to be changing.
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I agree. At least in Indian Upper and Middle classes, women are being supported by family and friends. One of my cousin committed suicide after 18 years of domestic abuse. After that, two cousins of mine were pulled out of abusive marriages. Unfortunately, the lower class doesn’t follow.
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How dreadful. Had anyone tried to help your cousin? Did her husband suffer any consequences?
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She has put fire to her clothes. She was beyond help in seconds. She saved her husband by giving a dying statement that it was an accident but neighbours tell a different story. 😐
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Why on earth would she try to save her husband after that level of abuse?
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She loved him…and he loved her back, it seems…because ever since her death, he is a changed man. Too bad the change came a little too late for her. May be, if her immediate family had taken her back for a few days and threatened divorce, he could have changed then as well. But, Indians, it seems, prefer a dead daughter than a divorced one.
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That is a horrifying last sentence.
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An unfortunate truth. But thankfully, Indian television is trying to change the attitude towards women. So probably the next generation will be better off. I see that change in my own family.
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That would be a good use of television for sure.
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