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Newlyweds

From the February 2018 Print Edition

In India the housewives kill themselves:a crop of twenty thousand every year.Some eat narcotics off their medicine shelves;some hang themselves. Some, long past feeling fear,self-immolate. Many are children still,whose nightmares have become their daily life.They hope to wake; they dream that if . . . . Continue Reading »