Marital Rape: Can Marriage Be Taken As A License To Rape?
36 countries in the world have not criminalised marital rape yet and India is one of them, this shows how far the women of the country are from being safe
Representational Image Nandni Sharma 2021-03-05T21:27:26+05:30 Marital Rape: Can Marriage Be Taken As A License To Rape? outlookindia.com 2021-03-06T07:34:56+05:30
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If we were to talk about rape and sexual harassment, under normal circumstances a person would refer to any such incident of violation as heinous. However, there is one “kind” of rape in India that is not illegal, whose perpetrator would not even be seen as a criminal in the eyes of the law. And that is marital rape.
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If you cannot modify something you have to destroy it completely and rebuild. We need to destroy the whole caste system – Bezwada Wilson
While scrolling through YouTube, a documentary made by Samdish Bhatia on Manual scavengers in Mumbai stunned me. Immediately, multiple questions were in front of me. What is manual scavenging & why is it still prevalent in India? Are we as a society sending people to gas chambers to die off? Why only people of certain castes have to risk their lives?
Let us start with understanding manual scavenging & manual scavengers. According to the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act 1993, manual scavenging is the act where an individual has to carry human excreta manually. Individuals doing so are manual scavengers.