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Afshan Azad (Actress In Harry Potter) Threatened By Family!!!!!!!

July 3rd, 2010 | 18 Comments

Who says threats for so called honor are limited to rural parts of subcontinent. Recently delhi , capital of India saw killing of lovers in name of honor. Here the issue was of caste and girl belonged to so called upper caste while boy belonged to so called lower caste. ‘So called’ , because there is nothing like lower caste or upper caste thing. Another shocking news came from punjab where a step father is accused of killing his step daughter . The step father and daughter are NRIs (non resident indians ). Now another news made headlines in most of Indian news website. This is regarding an actress who starred in famous harry potter movie. Afshan Azad featured in four harry potter movies as Padma Patil. She has been threatened by her … Read entire article »

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Killing For So Called Honor

May 12th, 2010 | 7 Comments

Another honor killing has occured. This time it has been in punjab where a 25 year old girl was killed by her own family with swords. Her crime?. She married with a man against wishes of her family. She seems to be trapped by her family who might have wooed her to come to their house along with her husband and her mother in law. While lady got killed by sword , her mother in law too was killed while her husband sustained injury from bullet fired at him. The cases of honor killing are on rise in India . Khap panchayat’s stand in favor of honor killing has been well published and support declared by m.p. jindal to khap panchayat has been debated since couple of days. Honor Killing is worst case of … Read entire article »

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Nirupama Pathak : Deadly Love Story

May 6th, 2010 | 6 Comments

Nirupama Pathak was like most of people of young India. Born in small town , amibitious girl who wanted to enter the big scene of India , bright student who got into prestigious institute called Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Promising career as journalist with heart that loved came to end at tender age of 22. 22 is not age to die , 22 is age when everything seems possible , 22 is age when one is ready to take on system , 22 is age when one dreams but for nirupama pathak , unfortunately 22 turned out to be age when she died or when she was allegbly killed. Her mother is being accused of killing her and she has been arrested. While investigations are on , primafacie it looks like … Read entire article »

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So Called Caste Heads Defend Honour Killing

April 13th, 2010 | 3 Comments

They call themselves custodian of traditions. They call it vedic culture and pronouce verdicts which can compete with taliban of pakistan and afghanistan!!!!!!! 20 heads of village panchyat met in what they call as mahapanchayat. Agenda was recent judgement given by court against people involved in case of honour killing. The verdict was loud and clear . Death penalty for so called custodians who themselves turn judges against consitution of India and give verdict to kill couples. Honour killing has nothing honourable in it. Brothers killing their sisters for marrying against social customs , villagers announcing couple to live as brother and sisters are some of verdicts given by so called caste leaders. These caste leaders are now demanding ammendment in hindu marriage act and making marriage in same gothra or subcaste as … Read entire article »

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Law Against Honor Killing Soon?

March 16th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Home minister of India , Mr Chidambaram in question hours session said that honor killing soon would be put into different category of crimes. Honor Killing is one of worst form of crimes which are committed in India , every year where families or panchayats murder couple or rape women in name of justice!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of social evils which can shame even the most backward countries of the world but it still prevails in name of age old system/parampara/culture Some of the cases are as mentioned below: 1) A couple belonging to same gothra marry. Panchayat declares marriage illegal . To save their lives couple run away from the village. Months later family of girl , emotionally persuade her to come to meet them. She falls into the trap and go to her … Read entire article »

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