Death by Dowry — Why Women Are Being Victimised in The Race to Find a Suitable Boy

Irene Lopez
8 min readJun 26, 2021

Vismaya’s death-by-dowry and what we, as a society, need to learn from it

Vismaya Nair and Husband Kiran Kumar | Image source KeralaKaumudi.com

When 24-year-old Vismaya Nair, from Kerala in India, got married, she had the world at her feet. The young, vivacious woman was close to finishing her Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery, or training to be a doctor in plain-speak. And she was…

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