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Do children affect the health of a marriage?
Why should children affect a couple’s marriage either negatively or positively? Surely the success of a marriage depends on the relationship between the couple? And whether a couple’s marriage is...
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Filicide happens all over the world but the reasons differ from society to...
I learnt a new word yesterday…filicide. It means “the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter.” The murder of children by parents is in the news lately…the Aarushi murder case...
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It’s not just parents’ attitudes which are obstacles in the way of a girl’s...
Recent NSSO statistics National Sample Survey Organisation say that about 15 percent girls never attend school as compared to 11 percent boys. As the kids grow older, the gap between boys and girls...
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No humanity towards trafficking victims
I read this story about kidnapped young girls being kept in a Gujarat village: When Kishan reached Bavla with the Mumbai Police to rescue his daughter in June he found her in a house at Meni village....
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Are foreign pharmaceutical giants making Indians guinea pigs in clinical trials?
49 babies out of 4,142 dead in clinical trials conducted by a foreign pharmaceutical company in India…this implies two things. One that the babies died due to the drugs tested and two, that foreign...
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A Double Seat Life – photo feature
The pictures below illustrate life in India…double seat, triple seat and yes even quadruple seat if there is such a word! The photographs are of people from different classes of society and shows them...
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Gay parents and heterosexual parents – any difference?
A gay Israeli couple, Yonatan and Omer had their baby delivered by a surrogate Indian mother in India…this in a land where homosexuality is a criminal offense. I guess this can only happen in a country...
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What feminism means to me
The feminism movement started with a fight for women’s property rights, voting rights, women’s right to their own bodies, and for protection from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape and for...
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British teens and Indian parenting
Reading about a British Reality show (to be part of a BBC documentary series) which will give “overindulged and spoilt” British teenagers a dose of Indian parenting was intriguing. A pair of British...
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Incest needs public debate and a stringent law to combat it
It was with relief that I read that the police are not falling for the bullshit being dished out by the “tantric” and “astrologer” Hasmukh Rathod and Kishore Chauhan (accused rapists) that the rape of...
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