Behind Closed Doors - Rinki Bhattacharya
An influential book on domestic violence by a victim who came out of the hell (as she says).
Apart from some research and analysis on the problem includes a dozen first person accounts of domestic violence and the responses of the society and the state.
Needless to say, it underlines the need for a more sensitized police and judicial system that believes in everybody's right to personal safety, that is not second to the need for a marriage - disharmonious as that may be.
For a cynic like me, a lot of the cases sounded like they began with poor judgement in choosing the partner and getting into the marriage in the first place. But i guess love can really make you blind....me haven't been blind for a day, so what do i know. That does not stop me from believing the need for safeguards for women who have got mired in such problems.
Must read for those interested in such topics.
posted by Unknown @ 8:30 AM
1 Comments:
Saroja, I have not read this book but I can well assume a little bit of what this book is all about.
Today, domestic violence is every where even among the well educated class. Amazing it may sound, many of young Indian are undergoing this cruel sick problem.
One day a young white Irish lady engineer told me how her abuse started. She said 99% of the abuse is verbal, saying cruel humiliating things in front of others and later profucily apologizing for it.
In her case, her family came to know the problem only when her "beloved" husband hit her one day.....
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