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Live-in in Love: Juggling Tradition and Modernity in Small-Town India

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A few years ago, at a family gathering my aunt casually dropped a comment that left everyone momentarily stunned. She proclaimed, “I’ll ask my daughter to live with the guy she wants to marry before they tie the knot. Just to be sure.” It was a bold statement, especially in a family where traditions have often guided major life choices, even though daily life is governed by a fairly progressive mindset. To my shock, my grandmother nodded in agreement and said, “Yes, that makes sense. Times are different now.”

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क्रांति का आगाज़ ईरान की आज़ाद यूनिवर्सिटी से

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पर क्या देश बन रहा है?
1979 से पहले ईरान की स्थिति आज के ईरान जैसी नही थी I महिलाओं की अभिव्यक्ति एवं उनके पहनावें की आज़ादी महिलाओं के हाथ में थी I
लेकिन धीरे धीरे यह आज़ादी कैद में तब्दील होती गई,
और एक तानाशाही सरकार ने महिलाओं को पिंजरे में कैद करने जैसे शरिया कानून ईरान में लागू किए I इसलिए 1979 के बाद ईरान में महिलाओं को लेकर काफी सख़्त कानून बनाएं गए, जिसमें हिजाब को लेकर काफी सख़्ती अपनाई गई।

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The Great Indian Wedding Gifts

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I was around five or six when my paternal uncle married my paternal aunt, prompting a huge celebration in the family that people from all parts of the state of Odisha came to attend. I do not remember the size of the wedding; only the joy of meeting a new family member who I felt was sure to love and care for me. It was years later I learned that my grandparents had one strict rule for both their sons’ weddings that they printed on all wedding cards: “Please bring only blessings, no gifts”.

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So, what can men do?

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I started writing this is in disbelief, and exhausting rage, which quickly extinguished into helplessness, and permeated as grief and eventually settled down as our default state of being — despair. But despair doesn’t warrant change, so I’m writing to you, in hope. Hope that doesn’t exist in this burning world, but is created, over and over again. And even though I am yet to witness this personally — I want to believe that you, our integrity to change and respond with accountability and our blueprint for the future can sit here together.

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महिलाओं को क्यों नहीं आने दिया जाता राजनीति में?

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अभी हाल ही में गुजरात और हिमाचल प्रदेश विधानसभा चनावों के नतीजे आए और दोनों राज्यों की विधानसभाओं में एक बार फिर से महिलाओं को पुरुषप्रधान समाज ने गायब कर दिया।

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Economic Abuse Under Domestic Violence Act

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Domestic violence against women is not uncommon in Indian society. It affects a large number of women, and the majority of them are so used to it that they don’t even report it. Nonetheless, many people continue to be victims of domestic abuse. Domestic violence is a strategy of instilling fear and servility in a person in a domestic setting, such as a household. The motivation for this violence can range from the need to maintain an individual’s power structure over another to the desire to instill/coerce another for self-gratification.

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मुस्लिम महिलाएं और हिजाब

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‘हिजाब मुद्दे’ से संबंधित खबरें और उसके साथ जुड़ी राय , वाद-विवाद, समर्थन-आलोचना आदि हम सब के सामने है। किसी भी महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दे का विश्लेषण करते समय तथ्यों और विचारों के बीच अंतर करना हमेशा महत्वपूर्ण होता है। इसी प्रकार हिजाब के मुद्दे पर विचार-विमर्श करते समय, यह आवश्यक है कि हम पाक कुरान शरीफ के सभी पहलुओं को पढ़ें और समझें, मुस्लिम उलेमा और विद्वानों की व्याख्या विवेचना को भी देखें और साथ ही साथ भारतीय संविधान को भी ध्यान में रखें और केवल स्कूल विषय को ही ना देखते हुए, एक व्यापक कैनवास में अधिकारों व चयन के पहलुओं को रखें।

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Are Women Really Passive Agents?

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The struggle of women stands aloof from what goes loud or visible in the broader media or any visible streamline. Be it regional, domestic, or international pretext, the issues of women and with that the very idea of “non-inclusiveness “comes as natural as anything. What surprising is the fact that how even after being established as exclusionary and alien, these issue and women as an entity are less heard of?

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