One in three women in India face gender-based violence, most of it inflicted by intimate partners Last month, police in India arrested a 46-year-old man who allegedly murdered his wife because his breakfast had too much salt. "Nikesh Ghag, a bank clerk in Thane, near the western city of Mumbai, strangled his 40-year-old wife in a fit of rage because the sabudana [tapioca pearls or sago] khichdi she served was very salty," police official Milind Desai told the BBC. The couple’s 12-year-old son, who witnessed the crime, told the police that his father followed his mother, Nirmala, into the […]
What a breakfast murder in India says about attitudes to wife beating
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