“Women are worshipped as goddesses in this society, but the worshippers torture their women at home.”

“He would come home and throw the cooked food around.”

My talented co-author, Kausiki Sarma, is also a brilliant photographer. The fieldwork images speak thousands of words.

“There is not a single object in my house that has not been a witness to the violence.”

This is a heartbreaking piece for us to write 💔 Who'd thought (mundane) housework could be so violent (extreme)? But our interviewees urged us to rethink the housework–violence coalition: “for me, it (marital violence) would be... the manner in which I was made to do housework—is that not violence?”