60% Indians admit abusing their wives: Why domestic violence remains common

For 10 years women, or an average of 22, died each day in dowry-related cases

Delhi, 23 August 2016: It was two months into their marriage that the abuse began. Mohan, 30, slapped his wife Ragini Sharma, 27, for giving a lower dowry than expected by her parents-in-law. (Names have been changed to maintain anonymity.) “First he used to be sarcastic about our class difference–I was from west Delhi and he from a posh south Delhi society–but then one day, he attacked at me”, said Ragini, an energetic woman, who now teaches at a school in New Delhi. “I tried to attack him back