Of all the relatives I acquired when I got married, Revati was the very worst. When I first met her, I too had read of sati, dowry deaths and child widows. I would shudder as I put down the book or newspaper. I pictured an innocent girl brutally held down, her head shaved clean and her bangles broken
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Since ancient times, the women in India have been regarded as one of the disadvantaged sections of t...
The purpose of this essay is to examine the complex social and cultural practice of dowry, and viole...
The Sati Abolition Act (1829) followed by the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act (1856) could not wholly era...
Within the past two decades, various humanitarian and human rights organizations have brought forth ...
Those writers having a dream of social change through their writings sometimes prefer to make a comr...
Dowry, the money, goods, property, or gifts given by the bride’s family to the groom or his family a...
When \u27My Dear Brother\u27 was published in Viva,^ I spent a lot of time feeling that I had commit...
he recent dowry murder of Divya, a chartered account in Tamil Nadu, has stirred up a storm. Anoth...
This work on dowry murders and sex ratio imbalances in India is embedded in a much larger study tha...
The tradition of presenting gifts to the daughter by parents on the occasion of marriage initiated d...
Today, as usual, I picked up the newspaper from the dinner table. My wife keeps it handy on it for m...
It is said that the scientist looks at the extraordinary and explains it in terms of the ordinary, w...
Increasing globalization means that some actions or events transcend national boundaries and often r...
This excerpt from the last part of a short novel by Mahasweta Devi is concerned with Molina Mishra\u...
The room still smells of her. Not as she did when she was dying, an overripe smell that clung to eve...
Since ancient times, the women in India have been regarded as one of the disadvantaged sections of t...
The purpose of this essay is to examine the complex social and cultural practice of dowry, and viole...
The Sati Abolition Act (1829) followed by the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act (1856) could not wholly era...
Within the past two decades, various humanitarian and human rights organizations have brought forth ...
Those writers having a dream of social change through their writings sometimes prefer to make a comr...
Dowry, the money, goods, property, or gifts given by the bride’s family to the groom or his family a...
When \u27My Dear Brother\u27 was published in Viva,^ I spent a lot of time feeling that I had commit...
he recent dowry murder of Divya, a chartered account in Tamil Nadu, has stirred up a storm. Anoth...
This work on dowry murders and sex ratio imbalances in India is embedded in a much larger study tha...
The tradition of presenting gifts to the daughter by parents on the occasion of marriage initiated d...
Today, as usual, I picked up the newspaper from the dinner table. My wife keeps it handy on it for m...