Causes of honour killings

This article on Honour Killing has been written by my good friend Mr K.V. Gautam. He requested me to post the same in my blog, and I am executing his order. I will like to mention that though this article is being posted in my blog, it is Mr K.V. Gautam who is solely responsible for the outcome of this post. - Raja Basu


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The honour killing of young journalist Nirupama Pathak (Delhi based, working for Business Standard) throws up some disturbing realities. Now honour killing is not limited to some uneducated people with medieval mindsets living in Haryana . It has been seen even in educated middle class.

These are the causes of honour killing in India:


Parents think that they are some manufacturing units and their children (of all ages) are their products

Parents think that their sons and daughters have no life of their own. And they have all rights to use and abuse their sons and daughters

The whole concept of human rights and child rights are alien to Indian parents

Indian parents are experts at emotional blackmailing

Parents think that they have done some favor to their wards by giving birth to them (which is wrong as kids are born out of sex, a pleasant activity. and people give birth to kids because it gives pleasure to them)

Parents think that they have done some favor to their wards by bringing them up (which is wrong as parents bring kids up just for their self-interest of helping them in their old age)

Psychologically speaking, parents unconsciously abuse their wards to take revenge for the abuse they had themselves suffered at their own parents' hands (someone please stop this barbarity in the name of tradition and so-called family respect)


Are people who kill their sons and daughters in name of caste any better than terrorists who kills people in the name of religion?