Lathmar Holi: Zooming In On The Angles Of Caste And Misogyny In India’s Twin Villages
Lathmar Holi: Zooming In On The Angles Of Caste And Misogyny In India’s Twin Villages
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VRINDAVAN, India Basant Utsav, or the festival of spring, is celebrated with great pomp and show by Indians, especially the people belonging to what the locals refer to as the “land of Braj” or the land of Hindu deity
Mathura, the juncture of the three northern states of modern-day Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Haryana.
5 Mar 2021
A man in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state was arrested Wednesday after locals spotted him walking calmly down a village street with his daughter’s severed head in hand.
Sarvesh Kumar, 45, admitted to police he decapitated his 17-year-old daughter with a sword after finding her in “an objectionable” position with her boyfriend on March 3.
“This is my daughter’s head. I cut her off. I couldn’t find anything, else I would have killed both of them. I saw her. I have done it with a sharp tool. … Her body is lying in the room,” Kumar is heard saying in a video clip of his initial interrogation by police deployed to the scene on a Pandetara village street.