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A young girl from Rajasthan asks for annulment from Child Marriage.
It is unfortunate that child marriage is still a common travesty in parts of our country. The laws are present, but they are not always reinforced. Child marriage is a violation of law but if it has...
View ArticleVIDEO: Muslim Man in Jaipur Funds Wedding of Hindu Couple
Meet Abdul Latif, who has been funding the wedding celebrations of less fortunate Muslims for the last 15 years. This May, he funded the wedding of 105 poor couples. He also funded the wedding of a...
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Kerala Couple Boldly Challenges Taboos by Having a Transgender Person as...
Marriages are made in heaven; or so goes the old adage. To the contrary, traditional Indian marriages are usually controlled more by political and economic considerations than anything else. A typical...
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Here’s Why This Malayali Bookworm Bride Doesn’t Want Gold at Her Wedding
Many young brides in India are often chided for their obsession with gold. But, in an attempt to shatter two stereotypes at once, Sahla Nechyil, a graduate in political science from the University of...
View ArticleStrong-Willed Mother of 5 Girls Sets an Example by Performing Marriage...
Many young girls look up to their headstrong mothers for inspiration. These mothers often determine what kind of women their daughters will grow up to be and what kind of role they will play in society...
View ArticleThis Inspiring Indian Woman Shows Us That a Difficult Marriage Is Not the...
With Indian women becoming more independent and making sure their voices are heard, old traditions like arranged marriages are slowly dying out as young couples increasingly pick spouses based on their...
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Denied the Right to Abort, 14-Year-Old Rape Survivor Shows Courage. Refuses...
This gutsy Bareilly girl, a survivor of rape, has given birth to her rapist’s baby after a UP court refused her permission to abort the fetus. But she refuses to marry the man who brutalized her,...
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258 Grooms in Surat Will Cycle to Their Weddings to Raise Awareness about...
The Central Pollution Control Board’s data from 2002-2014 shows that all major cities in North and Central India, including Delhi and Surat, have recorded a rise in particulate matter higher than that...
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Real Happy Endings: Heartwarming Story of the Man Who Cycled for 8 Months to...
Happy endings are real, and this incredible feat of a daily-wage worker from Meerut gives evidence of their existence. Forty-year-old Tapeshwar Singh started the search for his missing wife about eight...
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An Online Portal Has Been Helping HIV+ People Find Life Partners for 10...
Anil Valiv, a Pune-based transport official, started a matrimonial site 10 years ago to help HIV+ people find life partners. The suffering of a close friend who developed AIDs remains etched in the...
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Against All Odds: This Couple’s Beautiful Love Story Is All about Moving on...
When Vaishali Chandorkar Chitale first met her now-husband Prashant, she didn’t think a wedding would ever be on the cards for her. She had, after all, already lost her first husband, an Indian army...
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10 Common Questions on Relationships in India, Answered by an Expert
Raksha Bharadia studies couple relationships in the modern Indian context. With her website, Bonobology, she has created a non-judgemental space where she hopes to break some of the taboos associated...
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TBI Blogs: A Chance Meeting with a Couple Reinforced This Amateur...
The strained political and military relations between India and Pakistan have not stopped people from both nations forming friendships and relationships that endure despite the tension. Sutirtha Saha...
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Love Knows No Bounds: Differently Abled Couples Tie the Knot at a Mass...
Offering heart-warming proof of the fact that there’s no barrier that can stop people from falling in love, a mass wedding ceremony in Delhi saw differently abled couples stepping into married life. In...
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MY STORY: I’m Trading My Job From Being MD of a School to a Cab Driver, and I...
Hima Bindu writes about her journey of grit and determination, and how she never gave up in spite of several hurdles. My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons, not your business! The best day of...
View ArticleThis Cautionary Tale of a Woman Who Was Forced Into Marriage Is Something...
What is a woman’s worth in the society? Is she an equal? Is she a commodity? Usman Ghani, probably had no idea that the story he would share on Twitter would resonate so much with desi social media...
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Can’t Marry Without Toilet in the House, Say Maulvis & Muftis in HP, Punjab...
In a welcome move, which gives a boost to issues concerning sanitation, maulvis and muftis in states like Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have made it mandatory for houses to have toilets for...
View ArticleWhy Still Single? Why Not? Sushmita Sen’s Reply Hits the Nail on the Head
Sushmita Sen is not one to bend by anybody’s rules when it comes to living her life. The actress, who is known for marching to the beat of her own drums, has once again proved why she is loved by...
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Marriage Is Driving Tribal Families Into Debt In MP. These Activists Are...
These activists are working with tribes people of Madhya Pradesh to cap marriage expenditures and prevent families from plunging into debt or having to sell off their lands to pay for their children’s...
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Did Married Women Have to Change Names in Passports Before PM Modi’s Message?...
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced that women can retain their maiden names in passports even after marriage, while speaking to the Indian Merchants Chambers’ ladies wing via video...
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