I am not sure what's going on at NY Times. They seem to write a lot of articles focusing on negative things about India. In a country as large as India, you can always find something exceptional. This article about Indian women is as much a news to me as it is to anyone else. From the place where I come from, I don't know of any woman who doesn't work because of some family/societal pressure. That doesn't mean that there are no other issues, but a balanced narrative would have been nice.
Examples:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/opinion/the-right-wing-att...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/opinion/suicide-on-an-indi...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/insider/we-will-not-apolog...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/opinion/indias-move-agains...