I am a Dalit, Here Is My Story Of An Inter Caste Marriage With A Happy Ending

It was not an easy decision to marry someone from a Thakur community, every day reading about the caste-based violence used to stir up my soul.
It was not an easy decision to marry someone from a Thakur community, every day reading about the caste-based violence used to stir up my soul.
Jharkhand father killed daughter who was pregnant for marrying out of their caste in the Govindpur area a police officer said on Thursday.
Two cases of honour killing has been reported in Haryana in the span of three days
SMA is an important marriage legislation because it allows for civil partnerships. It allows us to re-imagine how two people can be together without the hindrance of religion or caste formalities.
Recently, a couple was shot dead in the Kashipur area of Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand by the woman’s father and brother.
In yet another instance of how women are seen as the keepers of their men, a politician embroiled in a Twitter spat with another politician called him “a guy who ran after a Muslim lady.” The lady in question, Tabussum Rao, now the wife of Karnataka Congress President Dinesh Gundu Rao, responded to this gracefully […]
The Gujarat High Court permitted a 20-year-old woman to live with her 19-year-old boyfriend as he is not old enough to marry her yet. What happened? After the girl refused to stay with her mother and relatives the court said that she could choose to live with whoever she wanted to as she is not […]
The Supreme Court of India ruled on Tuesday that Khap panchayat or any informal body’s interference in marriages between two consenting adults is plain illegal. The SC bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud observed that while the central government works on a bill to deal with such cases, the […]
Why in India do we still perceive inter-caste marriage to be a stigma? The younger generation of our country believes that there is no harm in marrying someone from a different caste. Also, they don’t mind marrying someone from a different caste if they find him/her compatible. However, the reverse is the case of parents […]
A twenty-five-year-old woman, from Kerala, had to testify in front of a Supreme Court bench yesterday that she changed her religion and married her lover out of her own free will. Hadiya‘s year-old marriage was annulled in May this year by the Kerala High Court after her father contested that her husband was trying to […]