India, July 12 -- It is often the unthinkable that happens. It was unthinkable enough that Ketan Agarwal's fiance Siya Goyal, with her boyfriend Chetan Chaudhary, murdered Ketan by pushing him off a cliff in Pune. What is more unthinkable, though, is that several media and social media commentators are now busy excusing and explaining away the murder.

According to writer Chetan Bhagat, Siya "couldn't say no to marriage." Thousands of young people from backgrounds very much like Siya's say no to marriage every day and tell their parents they are in love with someone or they do not with to marry or they with to marry a same-sex partner. Why couldn't Siya?

Siya failed Class 12 and, according to her mother, was not interested in higher stud...