A friend asked this morning, “Do these things happen in present times also?”
Having lived so far in a well-cultured and open-minded family in a metropolitan, isolated background, he had no idea about what happens in a house the very next street to his. And having studied and then worked out of his home for [...]
If someone dislocated your jaw in one of the many violent beatings they gave you, how would you like to try to live with them and win their love?
23 year old Neha committed suicide on January 1st. Her family alleged that her in laws “used to beat her up…” [Link] “Once she was beaten so [...]
Shikha was a beautiful girl of 27 years. She belonged to an educated family with embedded family values. Sourabh an MBA, a good student, working with an MNC and the only son was supposed to be her ideal match. They tied the knot and took the vows of marriage.
Shikha was a nurse by profession. The [...]
Motherhood is best described by the adage” Hands that rocks the cradle rules the world”. To quote Abraham Lincoln also known as “Honest Abe” “All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Thomas Edison said “Had it not been for my mother’s appreciation and her faith in me at [...]
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The river beckons me. It is a life force that attracts me and propels me downstream in its surging waters. Civilization crowds both its banks in all its grandeur and humanity traverses its banks in all its humility, overawed by the pull of the current. It is majestic, it is wide, and it is deep.
Yes, [...]
When Hillary Clinton won in the New Hampshire, the win was primarily attributed, by our worthies of the other sex, to the ultimate weapon that a woman has – her tears. That she swayed the female vote to her advantage with her misty eyes. Nobody really spared a thought to the capable lawyer she is, [...]
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It is true that we can not ignore the role of woman in Indian Cinema from Mother India to Mirch Masala to Chandni Bar. Like these there are various movies in which female characters have stronger roles.Aparna Sen in the 80’s with “Paroma”, where the woman tread the path of so-called “promiscuity” only to gain [...]
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
A girl who we looked up to in college, got married (arranged marriage) to a charming man who gifted her her favourite car on their wedding day. Then we heard she had come back home within days because he was violent. Her parents were supportive. She was divorcing him.
This became [...]
I was going through the story of a friend of mine whose sister is facing domestic violence. It has been 3 years since her marriage and the violence began just 3 months after the marriage. Coincidentally, he shared this story with me soon after I had finished reading a paper on the relation of dowry [...]
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