This is the latest example of the many social clashes a rapidly modernising
India faces as young people resist traditions of arranged marriage and
cultural pretexts dictating the behaviour of women.
This month India topped the Thomas Reuters Foundation poll as the worst place
to be a woman in the top 19 economies in the world. The foundation cited
abuse, killings and discrimination on a scale unparalleled in the other
nations.
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