Words of matter

The question is why use the term 'honour killing' in headlines and news reports when both these words are easily translatable

My last job in full-time journalism, and this was many years ago, was at a Gujarati newspaper in Ahmedabad. While I had overseen newspapers in non-English languages before, this was the first time I was an active editor of one. There are several things different in regional-language journalism and English. This is not a piece on those differences and I may write about that another time, but I can illustrate this, just in case it has whetted your curiosity.

One difference is that regional-language newspapers are read more by women than by men. In the case of Gujarati newspapers, that