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“Your Body Is Mine, The Wedding Ring Proves It.” Is This How A Husband Owns His Wife?

May 24, 2015 by

The Modi government's recent decision not to criminalize marital rape has once again brought to surface the perennial underlying, hidden problem of the decadent patriarchal mindset in India. Marital rape is in itself a very complex and a sensitive issue which has to be dealt with extreme sensitivity and caution and it’s certainly not supposed to be brushed under the … [Read more...]

Engineering Made Her Feel Sick. And Suicide Became Her Final Cure Because Of Her Father.

May 22, 2015 by

What if one day, you tell your parents that you want to quit engineering because you want to study English literature, and take writing as a career? Tell them that integrations and 3-D geo are completely out of your scope? Don't know about your parents, but after a year of studying in one of the most prestigious engineering colleges of the nation, Deeya's parents won't let … [Read more...]

Here’s Why I Sometimes Feel Like Killing My Parents For What They Do To Me.

May 21, 2015 by

Everybody says that we should be thankful and have respect for our parents because after all we owe our breaths to them. Had it not been for my parents I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this article. Perhaps I could’ve been thrown away into some dustbin even before breathing for the first time had it not been my luck for being born into this family. I am really grateful to my … [Read more...]

This Girl Spoke Up When A Guy Harrassed Her On FB, But Now FB Has Removed Her Post For Nudity!

May 19, 2015 by

When a person sends you dirty messages online, what are you supposed to do? The majority feels that the answer to it is ‘ignore it’, or at least that is what they do. But that’s not always the solution. Giving it back to the faces of these filthy people is what Prerna Pratham Singh opted to do. When a guy named Raushan Kumar sent her a vulgar message about woman’s … [Read more...]

“The Man Tore My Clothes And Pushed Himself Inside Of Me.” And Then All She Became Was A Damaged Good!

May 17, 2015 by

Days of poring over sensationalized media reports of the busted child trafficking racket in the capital had done nothing to illuminate any creative corner of my brain. It was, then, that Life, the over tried teacher, sick of giving subtle hints to an unheeding me, dealt me a hard hand. I had been roving the corridors of the Safdarjung hospital for a good hour and a half- … [Read more...]