I remember an incident of 1972.
There was noise at the house at the corner of my street in a small town. An angry husband had just sliced of tip of nose of his wife.
They were poorest of poor.
No one complained to police.
Wife was given treatment at government hospital.
No plastic surgery was available at that time in that small town.
After a month, I saw the woman. She had put on some kind of mould made of wheat flour on her nose, to fill up the space on nose due to cutting off of tip of nose by husband.
I saw her many times.
She had to put on this type of mould whenever she came out of her house.
Today, I do many cases on behalf of husbands also. I find them hyper-aggressive and a little violent and a little stubborn. The very reference of wife sets up them on fire.
I think this is more a problem of culture, civilisation and education.
The laws to curb domestic violence have come.
But nothing can undone injury inflicted on a woman. Sometimes they have to cary scars of injury through our their lives.
Haresh Raichura
29/5/2014