Case 1: Highly-educated Usha Parikh left her lucrative job in a top-drawer information technology company in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to marry a non-resident Indian (NRI), an engineer, and settle in the United States.
But soon she realized that her husband was an unlettered ordinary mechanic and an alcoholic at that.
Case 2: Just three months after Rekha Shah, daughter of a Surat diamantaire, tied the knot with a Singapore doctor, the 29-year-old pregnant woman is desperate to return to India.
She is being physically tortured by her hubby and in-laws for more dowry from her well-heeled father and is being beaten black and blue day after day. Case 3: For cash-strapped Anju Patel’s family, everything was hunky-dory for a year after her internet romance with a London-based marketing executive who led her to the altar.
Six months ago, the couple came to the Patels’ one-room-kitchen home....
