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
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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Ramachandra Guha: How Narendra Modi has undermined the practice of science in India
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The BJP wants an Opposition-free Gujarat. But some are putting up a fight
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‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed
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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: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?
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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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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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‘Lampan’ trailer: Marathi series is based on Prakash Narayan Sant’s stories
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Watch: ‘Murder in Mahim’ series is based on Jerry Pinto’s crime novel