Acharya Prashant explains that farmer suicides in India are often driven by cultural rather than purely economic factors. He points out that many farmers accumulate unsustainable debt by borrowing from local moneylenders at high interest rates to fund lavish weddings for their daughters. This social pressure to maintain respect leads to a cycle of debt that sometimes ends in suicide to avoid public humiliation. He also highlights how these cultural expectations contribute to gender inequality in education and resource allocation. Parents often prioritize expensive professional degrees for sons while limiting daughters to local, low-cost education, justifying the lack of investment by saving for their future wedding expenses. Furthermore, Acharya Prashant discusses how the practice of dowry and expensive weddings is used to circumvent inheritance laws. Although the law grants sons and daughters equal rights to ancestral property, daughters are often coerced into signing away their inheritance. They are told that the money spent on their wedding and dowry gifts constitutes their full share of the family property. This systemic bias ensures that the brother retains the ancestral property while the daughter is marginalized under the guise of cultural tradition. He concludes that the reality on the ground remains very different from the ideal laws written on paper due to these deep-seated social customs.