India, May 25 -- Of the 16 women killed every day in India for dowry why has the death of Twisha Sharma on May 12 gripped us?

We don't yet know whether she was murdered ( as her family claims) or died by suicide (as her husband and mother-in-law claim). So, what is it about this death?

I can think of several reasons, not the least of which are her mother-in-law Giribala Singh's regressive comments in media interviews. Speaking dispassionately, the head of Bhopal's consumer forum and retired district judge, has no shortage of complaints against the wife of her son, advocate Samarth Singh. These include, drug use and mental health issues; past sexual history and an abortion; failure to pray and forgetting to water the plants. Wait, what? ...