Marriage Map
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Indian women tend to be more educated than their spouses. Why are they settling for less?
Gender roles, caste constraints and low labour-force participation are some leading causes.
Shreya Khaitan, IndiaSpend.com
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What their big fat Auli wedding revealed about the Gupta family – and India’s elites
The choice of destination for a wedding could indicate a sense of identity, uniqueness and values with which the elites would like to be associated.
Parul Bhandari
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The British royal wedding: Here’s what one of the world’s greatest novels teaches us about marriage
In their coverage of Meghan and Harry, the media are focusing on all of the wrong things. Thankfully, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy had sharper insights.
Richard Gunderman, The Conversation
Trending
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Journalist Nidhi Razdan quits NDTV
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India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried
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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet
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Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British
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Budget 2023: Why FM Nirmala Sitharaman is incentivising a shift to the new tax regime
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‘Clear breach of international standards’: Experts debate the ban on Bangladeshis marrying Rohingya
The government claims the prohibition is intended to prevent refugees from using their marriage certificates to obtain Bangladeshi citizenship.
Afrose Jahan Chaity
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Child marriage, especially of girls, is on the rise in urban India but declining in rural areas
The legal age for marriage in India is 18 for women and 21 for men.
Vipul Vivek, Indiaspend.com
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Bangladesh’s new child marriage law allows minors to marry under 'special circumstances'
The legislation is meant to replace a dated one, but this loophole could have consequences, fear activists.
M Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: Bystander, police officer rescue driver moments before crashed car bursts into flames
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Watch: Bengaluru waiter effortlessly carries 16 plates of dosa, serves several customers at once
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Watch: Pakistani TV anchors are stunned by Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul’s lavish wedding gifts
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Watch: McDonald’s first automated outlet is open for business in Texas, US
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Watch: Woman caught on camera shoplifting in a bookstore in Jalandhar, Punjab
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China’s 'bare branches’: Unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism
The bitter fruit of the One Child Policy and the preference for sons is a female deficit of 20 million people in the coming decades for men of marrying age.
Xuan Li, The Conversation
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Inspired by ‘Sairat’, an NGO asks young Maharashtrians to take another look at marriage norms
Narendra Dabholkar’s organisation is arranging public interactions, asking young and old to shun caste endogamy and expensive rituals.
Poorvi Kulkarni, IndiaSpend.com
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Despite Punjab's honour killings, 22 per cent of marriages in state are across caste lines
But across the country, only ten per cent of marriages are inter-caste.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Lost’ trailer: Yami Gautam Dhar plays a journalist investigating a disappearance
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‘The Romantics’ trailer: Docuseries pays tribute to the Yash Raj Films legacy
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Film ‘Follower’ crawls inside the mind of a social media troll in Belgaum
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Shah Rukh Khan on ‘Pathaan’ success: ‘Have forgotten those four years in the last four days’
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In Ranjan Palit’s new film, a ‘watchdog society’ filled with persecution and paranoia