Under the Indian Constitution, all citizens have been guaranteed ‘equality before the law’. Article 15 prohibits discrimination “on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth;” and Article 21, guarantees “protection of life and personal liberty”.
To ensure these rights, in July’2009, the supreme court of India annulled Article 377 of the same Constitution [...]
A woman is not allowed to do certain things because her “cultures does not allow it”. Be it working outside the house, wearing certain types of clothes or going to certain places, meeting certain people. Men maybe allowed to dominate women or abuse them physically and verbally because that is something that their “culture allows”. [...]
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She seemed to have all the time in the world to listen to me……….Every person related to me wanted either a boy or a girl but she wanted a child -a normal and healthy child
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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 [...]
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Here it is the big day, the video van launch is tomorrow. We checked out the van today, it is looking great. The creative of the van is designed by Ogilvy and Mathers and fabricated by Impact Communications.
Our day starts tomorrow with the Press conference in Mangalore Press Club at 11 am.
At 4.30 in the [...]
9 20 PM : I stepped into the balcony to call the cat inside and heard the distinct thump of fists landing on somebody’s back. Dimly visible in the shadows, on a bench, was the back of a white shirt and a hazy figure.
I had heard similar sounds around 7 30- 8 [...]
She gets up earlier than everybody else in the house. It’s 5! I overslept again, she thinks. She wakes up the kids, gives them milk and makes tea for the others. Her morning is hectic to ensure that everybody else’s is perfect. Then, it’s running after the kids to hurry up — that school bus has [...]
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Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other [...]
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The other day I was lazing in the sun with my copy of Times of India and a big cup of tea. I was casually turning the pages and just reading the head lines of the main paper. By the time I reached page no. 20, I was yawning and wanted to close my eyes. [...]
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