Today due to the educational, economic and social changes, the erstwhile restricted spaces in terms of exclusive residential habitations and private caste-determined spaces are not functional any more. As a result, interactions between different caste and religious groups have indeed changed and increased.
During recent times the collective conscience of civil society and the public, in general, has been severely shaken due to the occurrence of a number of bone-chilling incidents wherein husbands, boyfriends, or live-in male partners have brutally killed the women they cohabited with. These incidents have not just been plain killings but have led to the ruthless dismembering of the bodies of the women killed. The killers have done various things post the killings from refrigerating the dismembered pieces to throwing them into a tandoor. One wonders if apartment buildings have aided in providing privacy and anonymity that would not have been possible otherwise to indulge in such acts.
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