Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Court, Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2010
I just finished reading Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In it, there’s a part in which the author writes about the symbolism of the marital bed. While I’m mostly used to the idea of a married couple sharing a bed, it isn’t so in all cultures apparently. And while I read about this I [...]
(Guest post by Sahana Manjesh, a third year student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.) Marriage has long been a bastion of what is considered sacred and traditional about relationships in India. Divorce then is viewed skeptically by sections of the society, law makers and adjudicators in equal measure. Mercifully though, there are [...]
Posted in Legislative Comments on Jun 4th, 2010
A bench of the Delhi High Court has held that women can be prosecuted under the Domestic Violence Act as the absence of such a provision can encourage males to instigate female members of a family to commit violence. I would have thought this was the only logical construction of the section, but apparently a [...]