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This time I am sharing my views on dowry. What I am writing is not a rigid opinion of mine. It is just my perception based on my personal experience and judgement. So, please keep patience and read in the way you would like to interpret. 

Dowry- an act of giving and taking as a part of contract between two people, for establishing a new relationship through marriage.

Since I am a Northeastern and haven't come across this kind of situation in my personal life, as we are free to marry anyone of our choice, since our forefathers did the same and here we don't give anything to the groom in the institution of marriage.

Again when I visited the other parts of India and even through my friends who have settled over here from other parts of India or from those who have come to our state for work, I have witnessed this situation called dowry and its long going mission since ages.

What I don't understand is why it prevails even today though it has been already abolished through act. 

When I asked my friends about that they simply say, we don't want to take it but the society, will point us saying there might be some fault in the either side, since they are not taking it. So, I wonder who are the society, you yourself or they theirself.

I understand the value of a daughter for those parents who wants to secure their future and it's okay the rich wants to buy their groom, but I have witnessed the situation with the poor who are obliged to pay.

Is a daughter that much of burden to us? We educate them, raise them, nourish them just to make fit for a marriage with some guy and again we pay them for marrying our daughter. Are we actually living in this society, were we curse the rapist, raise our voices against genocide, but again looking back I find, we are raising the concept of women and men through our reckless perception about marriage.

Marriage is some kind of biological phenomenon in my opinion, it's nothing but a act of keeping the human species alive, but is it okay to ruin someone's family and put burden on a father and brothers shoulder, just to make sure your daughter or a sister is happy and what guarantee does the Dowry gives which even don't hold a legal ground.

Due to this kind of situation our country is in a long run mission of suicide of the unseen, unborn, daughter of those parents, brothers who will have to sacrifice all their savings and earnings, just to secure the future of a girl. Its running like a mission under a flagship programmes with no end.

I really empathise, those poor parents who don't want a girl child to be born, yaah… it's like putting burden on the whole family just because you gave birth to a girl child, I feel sorry for those girls who have taken all of her parents hardwork in one stroke just because she has to marry someone.

I just feel how we humans, inorder to survive has risked their own species. Money is thing the whole matter of its existence which we can't deny that it matters a lot, so what about those who have worked their whole life saving a lot, just because they have to marry their girl child. It feels like someone is pulling a prank against us.

Is marriage that much of importance for us?, Is it a ultimate goal of life?.

 I don't blame the older generation, but what about the younger ones, do we still believe that this buying and selling kind of activity will bring us happiness?

Why can't we say no to dowry, why can't we say we don't want to give or take it?. May be you will be judged, maybe you will be cursed and never get married, but still do we really need to marry someone by giving bribe for making us happy?

Life is too short to live in such kind of tangled situation, our happiness lies within us, and with the person we love. I just thought of need to appeal to the younger ones, to change their perception about marriage, that you can never sell or buy happiness through marriage, just because you have guaranteed it through dowry.

So, guys please consider those cries, grief and sorrow of those poor and helpless people, of those who earns very little to sustain themselves, and of those unborn child, whose capabilities are yet to unlock 🔓, please let us fight together to this evil mission of Dowry and make it a history and create a new world, where a father, mother and a brother can sleep peacefully without worrying about their girl child sleeping outside their room ………So let's Say no to Dowry