India is a mess in general. It has some upsides and some downsides.

Their culture doesn't pull punches about being fat, being a single parent, etc, so that's a plus. But yeah, you also get incomprehensible outcomes like this, because they're still a classist, monogamous, legal-paternalistic society.

On balance, I wouldn't choose to live there, but I'm sure there are millions of Hindu who wouldn't choose to live here either.

And Punjab... well, they're basically Klingons. What sort of Sikh gets killed by his wife? One who didn't listen to the gurus, that's who.

India is a mess in general. It has some upsides and some downsides.

Their culture doesn't pull punches about being fat, being a single parent, etc, so that's a plus. But yeah, you also get incomprehensible outcomes like this, because they're still a classist, monogamous, legal-paternalistic society.

On balance, I wouldn't choose to live there, but I'm sure there are millions of Hindu who wouldn't choose to live here either.

And Punjab... well, they're basically Klingons. What sort of Sikh gets killed by his wife? One who doesn't know how to fight.

India is a mess in general. It has some upsides and some downsides.

Their culture doesn't pull punches about being fat, being a single parent, etc, so that's a plus. But yeah, you also get incomprehensible outcomes like this, because they're still a classist, monogamous, legal-paternalistic society.

On balance... I wouldn't choose to live there, but I'm sure there are millions of Hindu who wouldn't choose to live here either.