On 23rd September 1916, the New Zealand Herald publishes an article titled "The Hindu Women - A Problematic Paradox". In one of the earliest paragraphs, the article peddles a lie saying, "We found that she had no recognised position in religion or society, was never regarded as man's equal, and was kept in seclusion and ignorance, greater reverence was given to the cow than to the mother of the Indian race". Attacking the joint-family system, the article says: "The young wives are left to the senior lady superior, whose home rule is despotic. She takes the maidens and bends them to her will and way. She teaches them along her own lines, and their husbands have no say in the matter. She has no sympathy with the liberal ideas of her male relatives,. for they have lived in the open air and become impregnated with Western thought, so she will check any budding ideas of equality and comradeship which the more-enlightened husband may have for his wife; rather she will emphasise the teaching of the sacred books that the husband must be regarded as a god. And the women seem to act up to the letter of this and venerate their husbands, un-Godlike though they be."