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Couple in runaway marriage should be protected: Court
New Delhi :: India | 3 days ago
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Runaway marriages are manifestation of general change and is a result of stringent caste system. Such marriages should not be looked with bad eyes," civil judge Samar Vishal said directing the police to give due protection to a young couple. The parents...
Tags: India, New Delhi, Nepalese caste system, Caste, Family law, Marriage, Conflict of laws, Law Crime
Supreme Court gives lifer to six for killing Dalits, in 30-year-old case
New Delhi :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility This case unfolds the worst kind of atrocities committed by the so-called upper caste (Kshatriya or Thakur) against the so-called lower caste caste in a civilised country." "It is absolutely imperative to abolish the caste system as expeditiously as possible...
Tags: India, New Delhi, Dalit, Caste, Other Backward Class, Caste system in India, Indian caste system, Mayawati, Caste-related violence in India, Nepalese caste system, Social Issues, Uttar Pradesh, Indira Gandhi, Law Crime
A community caught between Manu and Adam Smith
Mumbai :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility Neither academia, nor the state has come out with any tool to do this. What all of us -- Dalit intellectuals, academics and the state -- have been doing is to count the number of jobs Dalits hold in government, and, of course, a headcount of Dalits in...
Tags: Dalits, Manusmriti Dahan, India, Adam Smith Chandra Bhan, Manudharma, Mumbai, Manusm￡ﾹﾛti, Dalit, Dalit Christian, B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, Social Issues, Scheduled Castes Federation, Indian caste system, Caste system in India
Letter from India: From Places of the Heart, a New Order
New York :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility From Places of the Heart, a New Order Published: December 3, 2009 My friend R. Sathyanarayan Reddy likes to talk about all the ways his world has changed...They were effectively feudal rulers, “controlling” — in Sathy’s word — more than 75 villages.
Tags: R. Sathyanarayan Reddy, Molasur, Dalit, India, Naidus, New York, Caste, Reddiar, Sathyamangalam, Discrimination, Kapu, Indian caste system
Kareena's 'caste bias' towards Hirani
Strange are the connections and cross-connections in Bollywood! Latest news has it that the reason why Kareena Kapoor sprung up to work for Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘3 Idiots’ even without reading the script is more than hilarious it is absurd! The...
Honour killing: India's continuing shame,
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility The number of love marriages might have increased in India's cities but the reality remains different in many of its villages Just a couple of days back I was reading about an incident where a village girl was burnt alive by her neighbours because she...
Tags: India, honour killing, belief systems, appointed courts, United Kingdom, London, Honor killing, Sociology, Nepalese caste system, Caste, Social Issues, Hindu law, Human Interest, Indian caste system
They label me outcast --
Pune :: India | 11 days ago
Credibility Saturday, November 28th 2009 To die before the world knows you are alive is an existence Asha Zechariah knows all too well...Reluctantly, she has come to terms with an eerie reality that death could be a happier place. ’Experiencing dominance from birth...
Tags: India, Pune, Dalit, Caste, Social Issues, Discrimination, Indian caste system, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, Christianity in India, Caste system in India, Anti-Hinduism
Cec - By Vaid S C K
Mumbai :: India | 22 days ago
Credibility A Political party must be de-registered which indulge in vote bank, anti-national, caste division, regioanl consideration activities, religious parties etc. A person with any criminal record or charged must not be allowed to stand for election. A person...
Tags: political parties, India, Mumbai, Caste, Sociology, War Conflict, Politics
Kids cut off from caring fathers
Tōkyō :: Japan | 24 days ago
Credibility I have been in the position of advising a father to try the Family Court, while honestly telling him that it would be useless. The comment from one reader who called these stories "trash" is both cruel and ignorant of true conditions. I could wish him...
Tags: Japanese, Japan Times, Democratic Party of Japan, Japan, Tōkyō, Toru Kikawada, Koji Sato, Politics, Religion Belief, Ichirￅﾍ Ozawa, Elections in Japan, Divorce, Father, Human development, Honestly, Osaka, Family, Fatherhood, Men, Conflict of laws, Family law, Battle of Okinawa, War Conflict, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa Island, Tokyo, Shintarￅﾍ Ishihara, Caste
The futility of a caste census
Mumbai :: India | 25 days ago
Credibility In 1998 when the issue of including caste in the 2001 census was being debated, I wrote an article, �Can the Caste Census Be Reliable?� in Economic & Political Weekly. The issue has surfaced again in the planning of the 2011 census. Many argue that since...
Tags: Caste Census Be Reliable, India, Mumbai, Yadav, Mahar, Indian caste system, Hindu law, Caste system in India, Caste, Sociology, Dalit, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues
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