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Wife of accused and convicted Akshay Thakur made a petition for divorce before he is hanged, as she says she does not want the stigma of being his widow. But is this something more devious?
On a cold night on 16th December 2012, a young woman was gangraped and mutilated in a moving bus. She died of her injuries a few days later. We know her as Nirbhaya. It was not just this one cruelty that she has been a victim of – she has had to take cruelty after cruelty for 8 long years, as justice for her is being delayed with every court verdict.
Even now, when the date for the hanging of her rapists has been set for 20th March, the wife of Akshay Thakur, one of those convicted, has put in a petition for divorce from her husband, as she ‘does not want to be known as his widow’.
Justice delayed is justice denied, and this could well be a ploy to delay the hanging, which will mean that all the convicted will be kept alive on government expenditure till then.
Whenever a death warrant is issued for a date, the lawyer for the defence puts forth another appeal, using all possible loopholes the law provides, keeping the convicted men alive. This has been injustice to Nirbhaya, to her memory, and to her parents, who have been waiting for the death sentence to be carried out, only after which they would get some closure.
Today was the first hearing in court on the divorce petition, for which she is well within her rights under family law. But now this will go on for a while, delaying justice further, knowing how slowly these things move in India.
We understand that as an Indian woman, Akshay Thakur’s wife has her rights. We also understand that in Indian society, the stigma of being the widow of such a person might be huge. But is it really, when a divorcee also may face a similar fate?
Is this really an attempt to a better future, or just delaying tactics, once again?
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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