If you do not agree with what a friend or a colleague or someone else has done, or if they do wrong, do you hit them to "correct" them? No? Then why do you hit kids for the same?
There are many tweets and other messages doing the rounds on 'adopting' kids orphaned as both parents die of COVID. This 'adoption' is illegal, with even traffickers exploiting the situation.
Manjiri Indurkar narrates a memoir of abuse in It's All In Your Head, M, sitting with her trauma to heal, with ruthless honesty, sparing no one, even herself.
Here we are, lecturing about how Bollywood objectifies women, how regressive the item songs and their lyrics are and how perhaps it’s time we break the stereotype and treat women with more respect.
My parents were extremely affectionate and epitome of harshness in the same breath. They gave me a harrowing time through my adolescent years.
Beyond the traditional reasons for child marriage, the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to result in more under-age girls being married away.
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