What India needs: Two child policy or balanced family to control population?

May 1, 2023

As of Saturday, April 29, 2023, the current population of India is 1,418,200,099 according to the latest United Nations data elaborated by Worldometer. However, UN projections based on recent calculations suggest that by the end of this weekend, India will surpass China in terms of population, which will be a...

Same-sex marriage and its conflicts with societal norms

April 19, 2023

Today is an important day for both supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage. A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices SK Kaul, Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha, is set to hear petitions regarding same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court’s...

Menstruation not a dirty topic, it’s about female right to health

March 20, 2023

The menstrual health of women is always a concern for the women’s fraternity at international as well as national levels. Every year on March 8th, we celebrate International Women’s Day, and on May 28th, we celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day. We are happy that we women have succeeded in every sphere of...

Legal protection of detainee from handcuffing and police brutality in India

March 1, 2023

One of the most common misconceptions among the general public is that when a person is arrested, the police will place handcuffs around his wrist. Arresting a person doesn’t mean that the police have to put them in handcuffs. This is one of the most common violations of the fundamental...

Thalikoothal: Survival of the fittest when you are aged

February 23, 2023

Shravan Kumar’s story from Ramayan is common in every household. This is the example that every parent gives their children at least once in their lives. It is a parent’s wish to have a son like him who can care for his parents well in their final stages of life...

Importance of organ donation in Hinduism

February 17, 2023

vasansi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grihnati naro ’parani tatha sharirani vihaya jirnanyanyani sanyati navani dehi-Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2:22For many organs, the donation is a legal concept where one can donate their organ to the other. Many times, organ donation can be done by a dead person and sometimes it can...

Unwed mother status among indigenous tribes versus modern society

January 27, 2023

For many in India, live-inrelationship might be a modern concept or it might be a concept that has been adopted here from a developed country where live-in-relationship is very much common. For many, it’s immoral practice and it’s against our Indian culture to stay together before marriage or to have...

Mindset and law: Both responsible for patriarchal norms

January 16, 2023

Patturaagyaam Binaa Naaree Uposhya Vratchaarinee. Aayushya Harte Bhartuhsaa Naaree Narakam Vrajet. The meaning of the above stanza which is taken from Chanakya Niti is “That wife who takes a resolve without seeking her husband’s permission for it verily shortens her husband’s life. Such women are consigned to hell when they...

Protecting egg donors in surrogacy industry

January 9, 2023

Last year in 2021 India finally enacted The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021. Surrogacy is a process where a woman gives birth to a child of an intended couple with the help of assisted reproductive technology to relinquish the baby after birth to the intended couple. In India, only altruistic surrogacy...

A man has no licence to harm or kill a girl due to rejection of his ‘love proposal’ by the girl

January 5, 2023

In a heart-wrenching incident at Presidency University, Bangalore, a 19-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her relative to whom she denied his love proposal. After stabbing the girl, the boy also committed suicide. From some sources, it has been found that the boy was related to the girl’s paternal...