Reassessing Responses and Reimagining Needs: Nattukar and Dowry Deaths in Kerala

After Cyrus Mistry’s death in a car accident, National Transport Minister Mr Nitin Gadkari posted a video on Twitter on 9 September 2022, emphasising the importance of airbags in cars.1 The video, which starred Akshay Kumar and carried a logo of the 75th anniversary of independence, ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mohitsav’, showed a performative bidaai ceremony, which is a ceremony organised by the family of the bride to overtly bid farewell to their daughter as she leaves for the marital home.