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Man is the only animal that blushes.
Because the unconscionable, cowardly bridegrooms, regardless of caste and religion, exploit dowry craze and drive desperate damsels to suicide or murder them for failure to bring in more dowry. The penal law has been sternly tightened by Parliament but the die- hard diabolism culpably escalates and the guilty escape the lacunose laws through the cold neutrality of the learned brothers on the bench. This is not an emotive overstatement but a sordid socio-legal phenomenon brought out in a study by the author of the book under review. In most of the cases neither the woman nor her parents reported the violence to the police or took legal action against the demand for dowry. In a number of cases, the girl is persuaded by her own parents to bear everything quietly, not to discuss her misery with others and encouraged to go back to a violent home.