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In 21st century Punjab, women are still killed for a 'crime' called love -Divya Goyal

-The Indian Express

Girls in Nanak’s land are still being killed, in the wombs and outside. Inside, so that they are not born to live. And outside, so that they do not live to love.

The 24-year-old bride had chooda (bangles) on her wrists, marriage documents in her hands and two security guards by her side. Yet, her voice trembled with fear. In Tarn Taran, Punjab, where another couple who solemnised a love marriage was shot dead a day before, I interviewed this young couple who feared for their lives from the girl’s family who had allegedly murdered three members of the boy’s family.

“How did you both meet and fall in love?” I asked her. A blush broke her tense expression, but before she could answer, a villager interrupted. “Yes, yes please tell them how and when both of you hatched this conspiracy to exterminate both the families.” Tears rolled down her guilt-filled eyes.

How can two people who love each and want to live together “conspire” to finish their own families?

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