Image of 'heroine' marred


  • Letters
  • Monday, 26 May 2003

A QUIRK of fate has catapulted a homely 21-year-old software engineering student, Nisha Sharma, into the unlikely role of a crusader against the pernicious Indian custom of dowry. 

Reacting angrily against the humiliation heaped on her father, she called the police to book her would-be husband and his greedy mother.  

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