29 April, 2010 by avani | Topics: In the News
Khushboo gets justice, SC quashed 22 criminal cases against her

The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed 22 criminal cases filed against South Indian actress Khushboo for her remarks in various magazines allegedly endorsing pre-marital sex. Source:Times of India Reading this makes me think over this issue again, ‘premarital sex.’  At 18 I don’t know if I am in favour or premarital sex or against it. [...]

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29 April, 2010 by olivia | Topics: Legal Take

The confusion about the DV Act is about to be settled. A Petition has already been filed in Delhi High Court.

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28 April, 2010 by admin | Topics: Bell Bajao Videos
Bell Bajao Cause Champion: Javed Akhtar

You have already seen the Bell Bajao Cause Ambassador Boman Irani’s call to action. The second in our series of celebrity champion voices is the veteran lyricist and script, dialog and story writer from Bollywood, Mr. Javed Akhtar. When asked about domestic violence, he starts out by hitting hard at the very terminology of this [...]

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27 April, 2010 by avani | Topics: Culture Today
Should women work or stay at home?

Till the 20th century a suitable age to marry a girl was considered to be between 18 years and 21 years. By this age a girl could only finish her school and, maybe just manage to get a diploma degree. The main focus after her marriage was to give birth to children. Her entire life [...]

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22 April, 2010 by admin | Topics: Events
Video Van update

Children peeping under the board to see the van activities Our Director Education, Sunita shared this story from the Karnataka Video Van. The video van was travelling through the interiors of Mangalore in a village in Tumbe doing interactive street theatre performance and holding discussions, when people said that the van should visit a near [...]

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21 April, 2010 by rachana | Topics: Culture Today
Survivor Unveils – A 55 word fiction on Domestic Violence

Note: 55 Fictions is precise form of micro-fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words. ~ This is an an attempt to focus light on a survival story of a young girl and her hardships that turn into her power which made her much stronger finally! ~survivor unveils [...]

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19 April, 2010 by admin | Topics: blog
On the question of sex with false promise of marriage – victim speaks to us directly

Editor’s Note: This personal account was submitted to us by an anonymous reader who signed herself as DJ24. She writes about her personal story and seeks some answers from the readers of this blog. Please read on and help her with your thoughts. Some basic editing and spelling and grammar check has been carried on [...]

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14 April, 2010 by meghana | Topics: Events
Bell Bajao and Swarathma rock Puttur

Pyar ke rang..Bell Bajao style! A rock act set in a sleepy town…”what in the world are you talking about?”…Not for Bell Bajao and Swarathma though..We rocked Puttur and how !! The band arrived in Puttur with our Karnataka manager (talk of hospitality!) at 7am on 13th..and headed for a bungalow Breakthrough had organised..The tempo [...]

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12 April, 2010 by admin | Topics: Events
Video Van Update: Swarathma Performance

The Bell Bajao Video Van is still on and is taking rounds of various parts of South Karnataka district. On an average the Van stops 4 times a day at 4 different spots depending upon how much crowd attention we can get. A team of 10 to 12 of our rights advocates travel along with [...]

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