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पुरुषों पर अत्याचार

By पूनम पांडे

महिला अधिकारों की जब बात उठती है तो महिलाएं क्या मांगती हैं? जाहिर है बराबरी का अधिकार। लेकिन अगर बराबरी की मांग करते-करते कोई खुद शोषणकारी की तरह बर्ताव करने लगे तो…. कम से कम कुछ मामलों में तो यही हो रहा है। इसमें कोई दो राय नहीं है [...]

The Myth of Women's Oppression

Shaifali Sandhya – An Open Letter to Rakhi Sawant

I want a husband to approach me like Salman, speak like Aamir, and kiss me like Shah Rukh, you told us. As millions sat transfixed by your swayamvara you sifted through sixteen thousand men around the world and finally from four wannabe husbands in your quest for non-filmy love. Now as you stand [...]

Why Marry when you want Independence?

Check out this news below. I wonder, why do these people who do not want ‘any’ compromise in marriage, marry in the first place! Is it because of the entirely wrong and romanticised picture of marriage shown on the Silver-Screen and the Idiot-Box? Has the time come for the entertainment media to become [...]

What about the evil bahu?

A group of victimised mothers-in-law from Bangalore have started their own helpline, and plan to approach TV producers and film-makers to get them to re-work the ‘unfair’ portrayal of the saas figure in popular culture

Mumbai: For years they’ve been haunting television and movie screens, making life miserable for their daughters-in-law [...]

Sisterhood is powerless

How feminism has made men’s lives safer — and women’s more dangerous.

By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Alisa Smith

Feminism, real or imagined, has long been praised and blamed for a whole pile of societal developments, crises and trends. But it has emerged recently in unlikely quarters: as a major factor [...]

Living life by Archie's law

Women marry for money all the time, so what’s wrong with a man doing so?

The shock announcement that young Archie Andrews has finally proposed to foxy Veronica rather than cute as a button Betty has set off a furious debate. Love or money is the topic at hand, being discussed with [...]

Make an Account of Life

Monica married Hitesh this day. At the end of the wedding party, Monica’s mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook… With Rs.1000 deposit amount.

Mother: ‘Monica, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your marriage life. When there’s something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put [...]

India couple's kiss 'not obscene'

A court in India has dismissed criminal proceedings against a married couple charged with obscenity for allegedly kissing in public in the capital.

The Delhi high court judge wondered how an "expression of love by a young married couple" could attract an obscenity charge.

Police arrested the couple – a 28-year-old man [...]

Pitfalls of legalizing live in relationship

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The State Government of Maharashtra has recently proposed an amendment of Section 125 CrPC to include women involved in live-in relationships to be eligible for alimony from their live-in partners. This proposed amendment has far reaching consequences, which it is evident that the government seemed to have conveniently ignored.

Granting women involved [...]

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