Those approving words describe the murder of a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend in Haryana state by her father and other relatives.

From society’s point of view, this is a very good thing […] We have removed the blot.

It is a story of sexism: the defence of entrenched male power, status and property and the enforcement of women’s role as factor[ies] for making men’; racism: keeping the ‘caste’ and class pure by preventing fraternisation with ‘lower’ orders; and the maintenance of economic power relations through unbridled barbarity in the service of feudalism–the vicious oppression of workers and peasants, all underpinned by a thick layer of superstition and religious obscurantism.

We are not ashamed of it, absolutely not, we have the honor of doing the village proud […] We would not have had a face to show if we had not done this. It was the act of ‘real men’.

So much for empathy then, the prohibition against killing one’s children cast aside in an instant.

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