‘A gift to keep drunks in check’: 700 Indian bridegrooms given wooden paddles to beat their wives

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Martin for this. I may have changed a couple of words in the newspaper headline (above).

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2 thoughts on “‘A gift to keep drunks in check’: 700 Indian bridegrooms given wooden paddles to beat their wives”

  2. Now, that’s more LIKE it!

    This is what I call a PROPER bit of good old fashioned domestic violence — none of yer
    n-a-m-b-y p-a-m-b-y ‘hate speach’ violence here thank you very much, this is the real deal, like we used ter have when I were no’but a kid and t’ misses would wait by t’ door wi’ ter rolling pin tha’ knows…

    “…..Gopal Bhargava, the minister of social justice and….. ”

    There should never be any ‘Ministers of Social Justice’ because it politcises the law and replaces personal responsibility with questionable State interference and encourages the abandonment of individual mores and prudence, reducing the people to the status of naughty children.

    There are, of course, those who have exactly that aim.

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