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  1. No Laxman rekha for Sita

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    / May 9, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Have the learned judges of the Bombay High court overstepped the Laxman rekha by observing that an Indian wife should be like Sita? The case related to a divorce petition. The reason was the wife’s unwillingness to move with her husband to Port Blair, after the Shipping Corporation of India...

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    / March 2, 2012 /
    Matches are made in Heaven they say but making the weddings go global requires creative effort and Youtube. What could have ended up as a limited edition `Dilip weds Mohana’ event, a Tamil wedding in Singapore, has become a mini-global phenomenon in the last couple of weeks because the couple planned innovatively, took the effort to get it shot...

  4. Female Chauvinists

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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    What do you call the demanding and bullying kind of wives, with an air of superiority, who treat their men with little respect. Female Chauvinists? This term would be particularly apt for the wives of the ever growing breed of henpecked hubands  in India, thanks to education and empowerment of...

  5. Live-in or arranged?

    Posted by Samyuktha
    / February 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Recently when I read an article in a newspaper about live-in relationships, there were 33 responses of which 32 opposed the article and the concept. Some even accused the author of poisoning our age-old cultural beliefs and customs with his anti-social views. ‘Sati’ and child marriage, prevalent at one point...

  6. Be Henpecked to be Happy

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    / January 13, 2012 / 4 Comments
    By R V Rajan Even after 40 years of married life, I have not learnt my lessons. In spite of the fact that I consider myself a ‘women’s libber` trying to do a lot of things to help my wife (or so I think).  Things, which very few of my generation...

  7. Marriage merry-go-round

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    / January 8, 2012 / 4 Comments
    By S V L Narayan Last month we received by post an invitation for a wedding. Neither my wife nor I recognized any of the names on the card. Purely based on regional grounds, we concluded that the invitation was from one of my wife’s relatives. I wanted to give...

  8. A marital vow on Telangana !

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    / July 26, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir The marriage invitation card caught my attention because it was shaped like a map, the outline of which is becoming increasingly familiar. It was a loud political proclamation of a deep, heartfelt passion. On the red card was printed `laggam pilupu’, or marriage invitation, and the details...

  9. Blame it on the rain

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    / May 30, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   The headline is from a song of the same name. It was performed by a German band called Milli Vanilli, which, sadly, turned out to be a pair of charlatans who had successfully passed themselves off as singers in the late eighties, and were awarded a Grammy for their...

  10. High-flying Prithviraj, stay grounded !

    Posted by Sofia Juliet R
    / April 29, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Sofia Juliet   Though I am not and was never a fan of actor Prithviraj Sukumaran and always felt that he is an actor by luck and by virtue of his family background, I admired the way he carried himself. I liked to watch his interviews as he was...

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