Blood relations
Updated On: 31 August, 2025 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Paromita Vohra
To say the video shared is of an older incident of violence, is to say that that violence is fine because it is not the immediate cause of death
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“According to Vipin’s relatives, clips of the assault that Kanchan posted are from last winter, not August 21.”
That may be the most chilling line from the news reports about the death of Nikki Bhati, allegedly set ablaze by her husband, in striking continuity with the dowry murders from “accidentally” exploding kerosene stoves of the 1980s.
Conflicting accounts of Nikki Bhati’s death have emerged on whether her husband burned her alive or she caught fire “by accident” while he was hanging out at a nearby shop. There’s no conflict though about the violence because he was angry at her Instagram reels and that she was earning money through a beauty parlour she ran with her sister (also married into the same family). And that this violence is built into our structures.
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