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The dowry system is a curse to our society. It can be an amount of money or some kind of property that a wife or her family is to pay to the bridegroom or his family. It was a social custom in ancient in many parts of the world. But at present, dowry is nothing less then a dreadful bane to a family with a marriageable daughter or sister. In this sub-continent most of the families face this heinous problem. A family with a maiden or spinster finds it impossible to marry her off only if they are not wealthy. In many cases, the presents of the bride are compelled against their conscience to promise an amount of dowry to the groom or his relatives knowing fully well that it is beyond their capacity to pay it in the near future. More often than not, the helpless girl starts being tortured within a few weeks or at best month for her family’s inability to pay the promised dowry .And as we all know, the luckless girl is often tortured physically and kicked out of the house or even brutally killed for having not been born in a family with enough wealth to meet the lusty demands of the family with so- called superiority of having a son. Our young generation has to be conscious about this dreadful cures. It is high time that all eligible bachelors started to shout a big ‘no’ to this heinous vice. We must start large- scale postering , canvassing and advertising to motivate and persuade people against this abominable crime against humanity.