City Life – Honour Killings in Delhi General Life by The Delhi Walla - June 30, 2010June 30, 20105 Love birds under threat. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is no longer happening elsewhere — in Pakistan, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. The killings of runaway couples belonging to the same gotra (sub-caste) or different caste are now taking place in Delhi. In June 2010, a father allegedly killed his daughter in Swaroop Nagar and a brother killed his sister, her husband and also a cousin in Ashok Vihar. The other day The Delhi Walla was at Select Citywalk mall in Saket and saw a couple holding hands. I wondered about their gotra. The same night in my dream I found myself reading a newspaper’s classified section where youngsters look for love in the city. Cute Pretty Girl, We met in Dilli Haat on 20th June. You were with friends. Hope u remember me. If you read this message, tell me, what is your gotra? — Anmol Puja Didi, By secretly meeting Vivek, you are ruining our izzat. What face will we show to the biradari? No one in our khandaan will visit us. No one will give his girl to marry me. Mummy is crying nonstop. I’m giving you three days. On the fourth day, if I still see you with Vivek, it will be the last day of your life. — Your brother Mukesh Simran Jaaneman, If I give you my Tee Will you wear it? If I give you my hand Will you hold it? If I give you my heart, Will you take it? If I tell you my faith is not same as yours, Will you leave me? — Kabir Pagla My Shona Saajan, Last night Mummy Papa called Chachaji and they planned to kill us if we meet again. 🙁 Shona, I cannot live without you. But jaan, I love my life more. Hope we don’t get born in the same gotra in our next birth. — Your sad 4ever Rachna Hello, Last Tuesday my sis Swaroopa ran away from our MIG flat in Janak Puri with a boy from a different caste. The honour can only be regained by taking her life. My mom says that she will not eat anything till she sees her daughter dead. If any reader spots her, please contact me through this column. When Swaroopa left home, she had a brown leather bag and Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow. She was wearing blue jeans and blue top. — Manvendra Kushwaha O Raj Bhardwaj, Wherefore art thou Bhardwaj? Deny thy gotra; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. And I’ll no longer be a Bhardwaj. — Jyoti Bhardwaj Namaste, I’m a secular liberal. My daughter is lesbian and I accepted her orientation. But she is now having an affair with a girl who belongs to our gotra. They are logically sisters! Tonight I will kill both. — SJ Saini FacebookX Related Related posts: Memo from Jantar Mantar – Killings in Lhasa, Unrest in Delhi City Vox Popili – A Life in Pooja’s Day, Sector 50, Gurgaon City Vox Popili – A Life in Rahul’s Day, Vaishali City Life – Abdul Rehman, Old Delhi Romeo City Life – Lakshman Rekha, Gurgaon
it’s ok to kill of two or more people in the name of “honour” but the same honour goes for a toss when two people from the same gotra marry. i can imagine how disgusted people might be at these so called incestuous relations but people should expand their thinking a bit.
Mayank … hats off for you, as you wrote on an issue which is plain murder nothing else… Just the triumph of egos and evil over good … Loved the last 2 sentences and it brought a smile after reading a dark topic,even people with the so called “Liberal” mindset and suddenly change like a Chameleon and show their true colors.. We are a society obsessed with the mindset of what others would think of us !! Just existing for others.. and not living our own lives To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all— Oscar Wilde