India, June 29 -- Maybe she didn't want to 'shame' her parents by running off with a man from another caste instead of the one they had picked for her-according to what police say she told them.

Maybe she just lacked the courage of her convictions.

Maybe her moral compass is so broken that she doesn't see a difference between society's disapproval and snuffing out a life.

Or maybe it's something more basic: We don't teach our daughters to say no.

From the time they are born, we teach them to adjust. To place family before self. To uphold family honour through compliance with the patriarch. To suppress individual desire in the larger interest of the family.

So much is not yet known about the murder of 25-year-old Ketan Agarwal, a Pune...