India, May 22 -- A haunting thought keeps playing on a loop in my mind. If Twisha Sharma had been just a five or a 10-year-old child, and she had told her parents, "I feel incredibly suffocated here... please take me away", would they still have responded with, "Let it go, ignore it, just adjust"?

Noida's Twisha Sharma, a former model and actor, had been married for just five months to advocate Samrath Singh, the son of Bhopal's retired judge, Giribala Singh. On May 12, her life came to a tragic end. Before her death, Twisha desperately told her mother, "Mera dum ghut raha hai, mujhe yahan se le jao."

Perhaps her parents did try to intervene, but by then, it was simply too late.

Alarmingly, a strikingly similar tragedy unfolded earlier...