Very recently, Anjali Sinha, a columnist with the Navbharat Times and a women's rights activist wrote a column in Hindi, translated as "Is the Dowry law being misused" This article seemed to be in response to two articles in Hindi, from the same publication by Poonam Pandey, translated as Govt. Serious over Misuse of Section 498A and Section 498A causes losses worth 4500 crores.

The article written by Anjali Sinha clearly shows how peeved are feminists with the bare facts of Section 498A standing exposed and a study report being prepared by a non-funded non-profit men's rights organization about the ill-effects of a law that has earmarked the feminists' efforts of male-hatred and one that has been at the centre-stage of debate between various social groups.

Highlights of the Article by Anjali:-

1.    Every law that is made to protect women becomes a matter of controversy.

2.    Though there are scores of laws to protect women but in our society all are rendered infructutous.

3.    Other than dowry harassment, many other problems are faced by women and since there are no specific provisions for the same; every time a woman goes to police station, the complaint gets converted into a dowry harassment complaint under Section 498A.

4.    It is a well known fact that women are the biggest victims of domestic violence.

5.    Divorced single women face more problem than divorced single men.

She is absolutely right in the first three points but only factually, the mere presence of these facts cannot be taken as a justification and an excuse to allow abuse of innocent men, women, children and senior citizens to be continued to grow unabated under the barb and paradoxical veil of "Women Protection and Empowerment". In fact the first point is absolutely true and that proves that every law that the feminist lobby designs, pushes for or vouches for is so ill-designed that it becomes controversy's favorite child. Straight from the horses' mouth! Now that they are themselves admitting that they are experts in nourishing controversy's favorite child, is it not time for the society and the lawmakers to understand their sinister designs and show them their real place?

And for the fourth and fifth point, neither is any concrete data available nor it is an unchallenged domain. In order to have concrete data, there needs to be gender-neutral studies conducted encompassing both the genders with a spirit of equality. Till now not a single comprehensive study targeting men has been ever done and no effort ever been spent to know the problems of men. Only women (and that too in the age group of 15-49) have been the privileged ones. And in such a scenario, making any comparisons or conclusions about both men and women is like picking a group of left-handed people and telling 98% left-handed are skilled people.

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