00:00After marrying outside her caste, a daughter was declared dead by her own father in Purnia, Bihar.
00:05He made an effigy of his living daughter, carried it on a funeral bier through the village
00:08and performed her symbolic cremation, leaving locals stunned.
00:12A person is honorable, a father is honorable, a family is honorable, a village or a tribe is honorable
00:18if it can keep its women disciplined in order, marry them off as per the prescribed notions
00:26and then everything can be said to be honorable.
00:30And if anything goes astray, if a woman decides on her own, rightly, wrongly, whatever,
00:36but she has decided on her own to deviate, then it is dishonor.
00:39So all these are very flawed, very violent, very ignorant notions of honor
00:45and the real purpose of culture is to keep discarding such notions and cleansing itself from within.
00:53But instead, culture often becomes rigid and chooses to retain all the rubbish of the past.
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