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From: sanskrit@techunix.technion.ac.il (Pradeep Naga)
Subject: Re: Youth hangs himself to offer body for dowry money
Reply-To: sanskrit@techunix.technion.ac.il (Pradeep Naga)
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 07:33:52 GMT
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In article <3v9ahd$d06@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
jit <abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>Youth hangs himself to offer body for dowry money
>
>NEW DELHI, India -- A teen-ager hanged himself and
>asked his family to sell his organs to raise money
>for his sisters' dowry, newspapers reported today.
... snipped ...
I can't believe these sort of thing is still going on,
is dowry a religious or social requirement ?
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