'dowry is a negation of the girl's dignity'. Discuss with reference to the story 'Bholi'.
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Dowry is a negation of the girl's dignity
Dowry is a social evil. It is indeed an insult to the dignity of women and girls. The best thing boy’s family gets in wedding is the girl in the form of bride. Anyone demanding material goods is actually insulting the bride. Hence, no girl or woman likes dowry. Dowry makes a wedding a transaction. Whereas it is the union of two families.
In the chapter Bholi, Bholi also does not like the fact when Mr. Bishamber, the bridegroom demands ₹ 500 as dowry from Bholi’s father. He makes this demand because of Bholi’s pock marks. Mr. Ramlal, Bholi’s father pleads to Mr. Bishamber to reconsider his decision; but he does not relent!
It is at this time Bholi stuns everyone! She tells her father she will not marry, Mr. Bishamber, who is greedy and inhumane both. She says she will rather remain spinster than be married to a mean man. She decides she will spend the rest of her life teaching at the school where she had learnt so much. This decision making on the part of Bholi proves no girl likes dowry because it is a negation to a girl’s dignity.
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world of science to him.
7. (i)After the death of Kisa Gotami’s only child, she
became very sad. She carried her dead child to her
neighbours in order to get medicine to bring him to
life. Her neighbours thought that she had gone insane
as she was unable to accept the fact. It was then that
someone suggested her to meet Gautama Buddha.
When she met Gautama Buddha he gave her an
exercise to do. She was asked to collect mustard seeds
from a house where no one has ever died. She went
from one house to another but was unable to find
a single house where no one has died. This way she
realised that death is a part of life and anyone who is
born is bound to die one day. Thus, Buddha changed
her understanding of death by this exercise. And
finally she could come to terms with the truth.