The Karnataka HC marital rape judgment is a significant one because it recognises the gender unequal foundations on which marriages in India are built.

House help facing domestic violence is an issue that cannot be ignored. Is your household helper safe inside her own home?

An aspect of violence is economic dependency. The person who handles the finances might consider themselves superior to the rest of the family members.

Tiwari married television actor Abhinav Kohli in 2013, after divorcing her first husband Raja Chaudhary in 2007. In 2019, Tiwari filed a complaint against Kohli, for allegedly abusing her daughter, Palak. 

“I know a lot of women around me are victims of domestic violence, who are quiet against it because they are scared that if they break their silence, what will happen to their kids?” asks Shweta Tiwari.

This situation paints a grim picture of the condition of wives in India who are dependent on their husbands for material comfort, rendering them defenceless against any power patriarchy wields.

Doubting his wife’s character, a man from Jalna in Maharashtra allegedly killed his wife and their minor daughter.

As much as men need to acknowledge this male privilege and stop abusing it, it is high time that we as a society stop and introspect who do men reach out to for help if and when they need it?

Many people on social media have hailed Thappad’s trailer as an antidote to last year’s infamous film Kabir Singh.

Research shows that 57 percent of boys and 53 percent of girls aged 15-19 believe that wife-beating is acceptable. One can only imagine how widespread this is in homes, that children find wife-beating acceptable and even regular.