Evidently, a twelve-year old is old enough to marry, but if she wants a divorce, her age is a legal hurdle.
Legal experts have told the family that since Susheela is a minor, she will have to wait till she attains the age of 18 years to get her divorce in a court of law. Thus the community panchayat has been called to decide on her future.
Now, now. I wouldn’t call them “arch enemies”.
In a strange ritual in Koodalur Koundanpalayam on the city outskirts, arch enemies cat and rat are kept in a pot which is buried for 45 minutes to know what is in store for future with regard to communal harmony and peace.
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The pit would be covered with a thick mat made of bamboo sticks and more than 10 bulls, adorned with silk clothes and flowers would be brought, again in a procession, and made to pass on it for nearly 45 minutes, amidst singing of hymns and ‘mantras’ by hundreds of devotees, the villagers said.After the custom, the pot would be removed and taken to the house of the trustee who will open and announce the ‘result’ whether both the animals are ‘in tact.’
Sometimes, though, you find a dead cat and a rat doing cartwheels. Oh well.
Wonder if they will try putting Thakre in there?
I trust you have heard the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac who stayed up pondering the existence of Dog. It turns out that there is a kennel of truth behind that tale. Welcome to Betul, where they are not nearly as agnostic as they are dyslexic.
On any day, people can be seen burning incense sticks and offering flowers and coconuts at the dog memorial located in the premises of the district collector’s office.
“Whenever somebody in my family falls sick, I visit the memorial and offer flowers and coconut,” said Usha Jaiswal, who lives near the collector’s office.
A 28-year-old woman has approached a local court in Punjab seeking legal action against her biological parents for allegedly having abandoned her near a garbage bin when she was just nine days old.
Just another female infant tossed into the garbage bin — so what’s new, you ask? Well, after someone found her and brought her up, parents materialize and insist that she divorce her husband to marry a sardar.
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Why does this look like the streets of Delhi?
Because that’s what it is.
From the Times of India.
Further exploits of our delirious madcap president —
At a brainstorming session on earthquake prediction techniques with Iceland?s scientists, Kalam had suddenly stopped the discussions saying they were getting too serious.
?So let us sing to change the mood,? the President told the astonished meeting. He then asked his Indian companions to take the lead.
There followed a period of hesitation, during which the Indians kept exchanging embarrassed glances among themselves.
Finally, IFS officer Shashi Tripathi saved the day, stepping forward to sing Rabindranath Tagore?s Ekla Chalo Re, supposedly a favourite with the President.
Then the Iceland scientists got into the act, singing a folk song with gusto, led on by cheers from a relieved group of Indians.
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