Rise For India

The Change Is Us

“We don’t want any dowry at all, but gifts like, a car, AC and Television is a must”

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Almost 54 years prior to this day, dowry was prohibited in India under the “dowry prohibition act, 1961”. When it was legally banned or restricted in our nation, it emerged in various other forms such as bridal gifts, lists of presents and also with a mere excuse of ‘helping the newly -weds to set up their homes’. Dowry is not a sheer practice that evolved in India. In fact, … [Read more...]

Gandhi ‘experimented’ with women’s sexuality in undignified ways. Truth which is hard to digest.

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Being the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi had huge responsibilities on his shoulders. And the majority of people feel that he did a great job in fulfilling them, but I don’t think so. It is now that I have discovered that what I read in my history books a few years back was not the complete truth. There is so much more to that man than we already know. History is always … [Read more...]

India has become the new rape capital. And you may not believe that who is responsible for it.

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Few days ago when the whole country was mourning over the Uber cab incident, when Shehnaz Treasurywala's open letter to the biggest celebrities of our country over the issue of women safety was being shared all over the social media, when we were again planning for a candle march for all the rape victims, when we were going to witness the 2nd anniversary of 16th December, … [Read more...]

‘Doing it like a girl’ is not an insult: A video thrashing the idea of women being the weaker sex

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Gender stereotypes have been the crushing the bones of our society since ages and even today I don’t think we can look past it. Women are still being treated as the weaker sex. Whenever it comes to doing something important or taking crucial decisions, men are being preferred over women. Though our society claims to give same importance to both the sexes but does it actually … [Read more...]