A week may be a long time in politics. A day is a long time in a relationship. SUDHEENDRA MURALI forwards a tell-tale sign from a wedding in Madras. Photoshopped? “Naah,” he says. “Actual pictures.”
A week may be a long time in politics. A day is a long time in a relationship. SUDHEENDRA MURALI forwards a tell-tale sign from a wedding in Madras. Photoshopped? “Naah,” he says. “Actual pictures.”
rediff.com/news/2008/jun/02bsp.htm
With all good intentions, we have the law in India under which if a girl or her family claims that they are harassed with dowry demands, before or after marriage, it becomes a cognisable offence. Once the case is registered with the police, there is a prima facie assumption of guilt on the part of the boy or his family. The case may or may not go to the court, most often the parties come to an out-of-the court-settlement, but the agony starts.
We are the most westernized nation in Asia, yet we are overwhelmed by talk of divorce. I feel sorry for all the women dowry forced into marriages. Reasonably easy divorce and equitable property division offers them hope.
ಮೊದಲಿನದು ಮದುವೆಗೆ ಮುಂಚೆ. ಎರಡನೆಯದು ಮದುವೆ ನಂತರ..!
PTL,
Noble thoughts. Spare a thought for the innocent men who are being held unjustly behind bars because of a draconian law called anti dowry act. Half of the registered dowry cases are false. This has become a very dangerously tool in the hands of wily people especially those belonging to the educated middle and upper middle class where false case of violence have been slapped on bythe wife(in-laws) on the husband.
Innocent boys and their parents are the harassed and exploited lot in cases filed against them under the Anti-Dowry Act. Even advocates and police admit that the legislation is one-sided and needs a review.
This law is the only one where women have upper hand over men! No wonder women who have been subjected to domestic violence use it for their advantage.
Pulikeshiyavare,
“We are the most westernized nation in Asia” ? Yaake heluvantavaraaguvira?
Koppal Haida–
It wasn’t a brag, but a cry. We happily ape everything that America and Britain do–look a the commercialisation of Cricket and the arrival of cheergirls. We are more familiar with English than any other Asian country. Valentine’s Day perhaps gets more press than our poor Ugaadi. Divorce is also an institution popularised by our hunger for western ways.
I am not for exploitation of any kind, by men or women. The words I used are “dowry-forced” and “equitable.” Like that other unbelievable, legally sanctioned form of lynching called “jaathinindane,” anti-dowry legislation has indeed made victims of men at the hands of unscrupulous lawyers and parents.
Don’t ruin this innocuous joke.
Just forget all the knowledge you got from tabloids and 24×7 “news” channels!
This is not about divorce!
or dowry…