New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Domestic violence, dowry, and oppressive marriages are symptoms of a deeper poverty - absence of inner clarity. They thrive because society at large runs on fear, desire, and unexamined habits. Outrage after each tragedy has become a ritual, but that cannot cure the blindness of the mind

Every few months, the nation gets shaken by a horrifying report of a young woman's death in her marital home. Police investigations may cite accident, suicide, or homicide, with reasons ranging from dowry harassment to alleged infidelity. Social media erupts, families accuse, lawyers argue. Yet beneath all the noise, one fact refuses to go away: such incidents unsettle us because they feel very familiar. They are not rare exceptions...