A Grim End to a Grotesque Tale of Love, Hate, and Hubris The death of Ramanuj Goswami, who beheaded his wife Riya Talukdar and boasted about it from police custody, raises more questions than answers about our society's tolerance for violence.
On the surface, this is a tragic tale of marital discord gone horribly wrong, but scratch beneath the headlines to find a complex web of factors that contributed to Goswami's descent into madness.
Goswami's crime was not an isolated incident, but rather a symptom of a larger disease afflicting our culture.