"My contention with the Nepali culture lies in the fact that it is a culture built upon the design of the Hindu patriarchal system..."

Isaac, I am shocked. Now, don't tell me you were in jury. This is exactly what I thought juries thought about..the Hindu, the Hindu culture, that must be bad and it might have influenced their decision.

 Hindus don't condone violence on women. I always find them comparatively ahead of others (only 60 years ago, warriors of certain religion in Europe burnt women and children , who believed in another religion, alive in holocaust something you would not find in Nepal). Violence on women are universal. Bias on them are universal, but Nepal may be inching well ahead of America by now. Look, we know how bad it is in certain part of America. Sometimes ago, a girl hit my car when I was driving my way from Houston to Austin. She didn't have a license because she was only 15. She begged that I shouldn't tell it to her brother-in-law -- she was already married. I felt so bad at the time. It was a small dent and I didn't report to police.

Marriage at the small age, domestic violence, lack of enough female students at good colleges, less wage than their male colleagues, no political representation at all at the highest level, forceful enslavement and forced sexual labor are as much an American story as it is Nepali story. Just like Moslem women protect the burqa system when talking with us, American women too want to feel they are in good shape. As Emma Goldman, an eminent American women activist would have said, American women need to first look at their position in their own home before practicing complacency. After all, let's remember, How many years after the male got their voting rights did women here got the voting rights?