Dictate whether his wife can talk to her family? Abuse his wife physically and mentally when she’s talking to her family? Stop his wife from meeting her ailing father who eventually passed away without meeting her? Verbally abuse (the never-ending Hindi abuses) his wife, her family and his own daughters? Threaten to kill his wife’s nephew since she wished to attend his wedding? Lock his wife and daughters in the house so that they could not step out? Raise his hand on his daughter for wanting to go to her maternal cousin’s wedding when she was alone in the house? Hide away all the house and car keys and his wife’s jewelry?

To the present day, we are not on talking terms with my father. He still feels like he has the right to talk ill about his own daughter. He says he will put it in the newspapers tomorrow when she is out with friends at 12.30 am and vouch that it is actually a concern.

He showed his pe*** to his elder daughter when she confronted him for talking ill about her sister. He also threatened his elder daughter that he’ll make a video on her when she started taking a video of his abusive and obscene behavior. 

Does a man troubled by his circumstances in life have a right to do all of the above?

Did we not try to make him understand time and again? Definitely yes. We also reached out to people around and our family. Nobody had the guts to speak against him because he has never listened to anybody in his life ever.

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