Anil Pandey is a 27 year old boy living in Bangalore with his own flat and a 9 to 5 job that pays him 75,000 every month. Shreya Srivastav is a 27 year old dental surgeon running a clinic in Bangalore, which gets her about 60,000 to 70,000 every month. The things that connect both these young people are: They were classmates in school. They are successful and … [Read more...]
“Your Body Is Mine, The Wedding Ring Proves It.” Is This How A Husband Owns His Wife?
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...]
A 12 Year Girl Had To Choose – Marriage Or Prostitution. She Refused To Marry.
The practice of slavery has been abolished some 150 years back. However, today we have something called modern day slavery, a malicious act that is squashing the very prevalence of individuality and most importantly, childhood and its innocence. Slavery today has transformed into its contemporary counterpart which is popularly known as human trafficking, and with children being … [Read more...]
This Is How A Divorced Man/Woman In India Is Exactly Presumed To Be
The other day, one of my friends texted me. She had met a guy whom she genuinely liked. He was a surgeon, well read, and definitely intelligent. It was sort of a blind date, and I could tell she liked him, but there was a certain hesitancy on her part. When I asked her the reason, she told me the guy was divorced. The hesitancy certainly took me by surprise. I just assumed … [Read more...]
My Friend Is Going For A Divorce, And She Really Needs It. But I Am Afraid What Might Happen Next.
Like many other girls, my friend “Siya” had her dreams of being loved and married to a handsome and debonair man. She got married to the one she fell in love with. But now, after some years of her shaky marriage, I see her speaking in a wailing, dolorous voice, “I and my husband cannot coexist under one roof anymore and we are thinking to break this marriage.” I asked her, … [Read more...]