Myth of consent
India’s refusal to criminalise marital rape rests on a premise that is rarely stated plainly but widely enforced: that consent, once given at marriage, is permanent.
India’s refusal to criminalise marital rape rests on a premise that is rarely stated plainly but widely enforced: that consent, once given at marriage, is permanent.
The Supreme Court of India on Friday held that a wife’s alleged failure to perform household chores such as cooking or managing domestic work cannot, by itself, amount to cruelty in matrimonial disputes.
In India, marriage has long been treated as a one-way journey for women. Once a daughter leaves her parents’ home in a wedding procession, social convention dictates that she must endure whatever awaits her in her husband’s household.
A nikahnama and passport copy have surfaced, claiming she is married and has changed her faith.
Zaira took to Instagram to post two pictures from her wedding day, but did not reveal the name or face of her husband.
According to the government, the decision was necessitated by the increasing number of inter-community marriages between locals and people of Nepalese, Bhutanese, and Tibetan origin in the state.
Amreen, daughter of Jotinder Singh Sekhon and Opinder Kaur, holds double master’s degrees, a PhD in psychology, and teaches at Panjab University. She has also undertaken studies at Harvard University.
Age BA, pore bie (education first, then marriage) – this simple slogan, long championed separately by a government education official and a committed grassroots volunteer in Durgapur, is now set to gain national attention.
The actress emphasized that self-love is non-negotiable. She shared how she no longer believes that being in a relationship is the only path to feeling complete.
Expanding the scope of marriage, Madras High Court has observed that same sex couples too can very well form a family since wedlock alone could not be the mode to start a family.
