Single women in India face humiliation, scorn
MUMBAI, India - Stricken with a mystery ailment that left her dry heaving and breathless, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, a 38-year-old Indian writer, went with her mother to see a top gastroenterologist in the eastern city of Kolkata.
The doctor ran tests and squeezed her stomach several times before turning to Kundu's mother to deliver an assessment.
"How come you never thought of getting her married?" he said.
Kundu imagined kicking the doctor in the groin and storming out. But she only grimaced. She had heard it all before.
That her single status would figure in a medical exam was just one example of the humiliations, scorn, pity and
