Child Sexual Abuse is one of India’s secret crimes. We don’t speak it’s name, vaguely saying “child abuse” or just indicating by our scandalized, shamed faces, full of fear and secrets, crowding about the name like ants around a morsel of rice, voices rising over the shrill piercing scream that brought the crowds, drowning it [...]
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The Bitter Burden of Silence
Posted in History and Patriarchy, Women and the society, tagged Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse, Indian Society, Patriarchy, sex education, sexuality, sexuality education on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Great Indian Divorce
Posted in Women and the society, tagged Abuse, Divorce, Emotional Abuse India, Indian Family on November 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A friend of mine recently sent me an article from the Washington Post headlined, “In tradition-bound India female, divorced and happy”. The article, which calls divorce “a girl’s best friend”, speaks of how the number of people filing for divorce has doubled in recent years, with women as old as 70 choosing to leave long [...]
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