Violence against adolescence
Do you know, as a teenager, folks may find too much domestic violence against themselves, when there is lots of controversies between parents and youth, and lack of interpersonal communication or some adolescence mayn’t be find any kind of violence ,even if it exists. Sometimes communication gaps lead to misunderstandings between adolescence and parents, and [...]
Alice Walker
Alice Walker wrote a wonderful book called “The Color Purple” in 1982. The novel is one of the most brilliant texts on domestic violence you can find. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Check this link for more.
Living with the devil
Recently our maid entered the house, wearing her threadbare sari which entirely failed to conceal the ugly purple bruises all over her body. Her wretched condition was a reminder of a feature of their life common to all the maids who had worked in our house. It is the same story in other people’s houses [...]
Does religion advocate rape or has it been raped in advocacy?
إذا دعا الرجل زوجته لحاجته فلتأته وإن كانت على التنور Translation: “When the man (i.e. the husband) calls his wife for a need of his, then she should go, even if she is at the stove.” Ephesians 5:21 (New International Version) “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” Surah 2, verse 223: “Your wives are as [...]
another dimension to Domestic Violence
Uproar over a judgement by the Bombay High Court that daughters-in-law cannot lay claim on their in-law’s house unless her husband too owns the same has no standing. In perhaps the first order to define ’shared household’ under the Domestic Violence Act, the Bombay HC has held that a daughter-in-law can’t claim any legal right [...]
Is it worth it?
It is not a new thing to hear loud cries protesting against gender inequality, and discrimination. I would not like to dwell on any particular case or quote glaring worrisome numbers here as I am in no didactic mood. Myriad ideas strike my mind as I pen down this article. While listening to a conversation [...]
dilution of the anti-dowry law
Through the means of this blog, i would like to draw attention to an order passed by The Supreme Court of India in February this year, which dilutes the anti-dowry law. The court ruled that demand for money and presents from parents of a married girl at the time of birth of her child or [...]
A crime less acknowledged
Hardly a week passes, nowadays, not getting to know of a rape case. Being a woman, it hurts every time I hear such a piece of news and the description of barbaric, perverted thirst quenchers who ruin the lives of women; make it a living hell. What has recently caught my attention though, is the [...]
Burnt Memories…
Distinctly, I see in my mind’s eye – that (in)auspicious day of my life, when we were bound in flowery matrimonial bonds. those seven steps walking around the holy fire midst the roars of sacred Vedic chants, and your promise to be my life-companion for seven births… How you rode a white Pegasus dressed in [...]
super power
Theist or etheist every body believes in existence of a super natural power which runs the universe. In addition there is one more super power which rules the world. Men or women who maintain this power optimum are humans; who maintains this power high are beasts; who could control this power are spiritual. This super power [...]
