The recent SC judgment on women’s right to abortion has started the debate afresh, but patriarchal Indian society still largely believes marital rape is…
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The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 reinforces the idea of family as a heterosexual and patriarchal institution as it excludes queer persons and unmarried single…
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Declining rate of population growth is a key factor in achieving the goal of poverty eradication. One Indian state that has consistently scored high…
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Shamla Cholassery was living an ordinary life in the hillside village of Mankada in Kerala’s Malappuram district till 2019 with hopes of one day…
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A traumatised rape survivor, that too a nun, cannot be expected to narrate abuse in consistent, accurate terms, say legal experts “The victim was…
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What does it mean to be a nun? It is not exactly what films show us – living a conscientious life in the serene…
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Home, they say, is where the heart is. But for 15-year-old Pooja, home is where trauma was. Unable to bear the trauma, Pooja left…
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The family court in Thiruvananthapuram has stayed the controversial adoption procedure followed for the child of Anupama S Chandran and Ajith Kumar, who raised…
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In 2018, Beena (name changed), a typist in the Kerala Police department, realised that her 15-year-long marriage was emotionally dead and beyond repair. That…
Read More The new Act gives the right to seek abortion to unmarried women too, as it replaced the term ‘married woman and her husband’ in…
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