First Published in Manushi Journal (Issue No. 154): http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20Files%20154/MK%204-10.pdf The current simplistic debate over reservations as a key remedy for inequality, injustice and backwardness has been reduced…
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First Published in The Indian Express December 15, 2009 While dealing with a PIL filed by Bachpan Bachao Andolan about large scale child trafficking in the country, a…
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Here is a typical case of “Love Jehad” whereby a minor school going girl was enticed under false pretense, repeatedly raped, fleeced, blackmailed and pressured to…
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First published in Manushi Issue No. 80 (January – February 1994) http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20files%2080/love_and_marriage.pdf Feminists, socialists and other radicals often project the system of arranged marriages as one of the…
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