Suffocation- Two Sides To A Coin

“Dowry caused another woman to lose her life.”, read the headlines. “Suffocated with a pillow”, a line that triggered a chain of thoughts in a female reader. “The suffocation that she felt in the absence of oxygen killed her and what I feel being restricted on speaking my mind is killing me everyday! But nobody can be hanged for this ‘crime”. Accepting the ‘value system’ did not come easy to her or was she trying to fight a long delayed battle?

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