Dowry Deaths- who is responsible?

Almost everyday we read a newspaper report wherein a girl or a woman has been tortured and killed by her in-laws. The girls' families are the ones to come forward and register a case against the in-laws claiming that their daughter had been getting harassed for dowry and has subsequently been killed..

I would like to know what these “so-called” parents or blood relatives were doing for those 1,2, or n number of years when their daughter was being tormented. Then they left their daughter to suffer at the hands of her in-laws, but now when she is dead, they want her to get justice. What were they doing earlier sitting quietly? Saving their faces? Pretending in front of their relatives and neighbours that their daughter has a perfect life?? What a sham!

I think they are the ones against whom the first FIR needs to be lodged who callously left their daughters to lead a life of misery.. It is lamentable to say that she is actually better off now, being away from all these heartless people..

My long awaited DIWALI bonus arrear

I made a stupid mistake of not applying for my ‘diwali bonus arrear’ when everyone else at my school did, as I thought the new appointees hadn’t got the bonus. One fine day, after months, out of nowhere, I got an urge to check my pass book and I realized that I was actually supposed to get it. I immediately set out to correct my mistake and prepared a bill to apply for the same.

Little did I realize at that time, that this small mistake was actually not that small. Two years down the line, having already paid 150bucks as TIP (read bribe), I still haven’t got my ‘diwali bonus arrear’ which was a paltry sum of Rs. 987. Now, I think, I should not have gone after it at all but having spent money and effort on it, I now feel that I should take it to the end. Don’t know how much more I would need to shell out to get this small amount for which I have already lost the bank interest for two years.

This is how our department works, I guess…