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

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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So Called Caste Heads Defend Honour Killing

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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Caste More Important Than Offspring?

Another honour killing. Another life lost. Honour Killing is perhaps one of the crimes which even god would find difficult to forgive. Because honour killing is done by the very people whom the victim trusts the most. What kind of honour is this?. What is defination of so called honour?. What kind of emotion this is which makes families heartless and they can kill their own daughters , sons , brothers , sisters? When would we come out of so called honour syndrome??. Honour killing is seen in old civilizations and many lives have been lost till date in name of protecting so called honour. Here the case is between marriage between brahmin and dalit. caste became more important than life of offspring in this case. Its sad that such things keeps on … Read entire article »

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