Tag: Shahimoon Bibi

  Najma Khatoon is barely 21 years old. She used to live with her in-laws and husband in two 10x10 ft rooms constructed out of corrugated iron sheets in a squalid slum on railway land in the Dhubri district of Assam. On 10 April 2018, she got the shock of her life when she opened the door to the room where her in-laws lived, to give a cup of tea to her mother-in-law, Shahimoon Bibi. She found Shahimoon Bibi hanging in the small room. She had committed suicide. Shahimoon Bibi's parents...