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.
We have it on the authority of Rediff’s Bharti ends tapas, to meet Advani, that
Ending her 39-day tapas in the holy town of Amarkantak, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti on Sunday left for Delhi to meet party president Lal Kishenchand Advani.
Insider sources reveal that after nibbling on a giant platter of Patatas Bravas, Tortilla Espa?ola, Croquetas de Manchego, Champinones al ajillo and Gambas con Gabardina for thirty-nine days at a stretch, the former chief minister was simply bored with Spanish food. She is now planning to meet Mr Advani and demand some servings of Italian antipasti.
She does, however, plan to parlay her Amarkantak ordeal into a book of Tapas Recipes
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Will this apply to tree-tree marriages and child-dog marriages, frequently reported from Bengal?
West Bengal is handing a gift hamper of contraceptives to every newly wed couple who register their marriage.
State Health Minister Suryakanta Mishra says the incentive scheme would encourage more people, particularly those from the countryside, to register their marriages.
Baby prices declined yesterday to a new low of 25 paise in Bengal. This is well below the moving 50-day average of 29.3 paise. Market sources expect firm support at the psychologically important level of 22 paise.
Abject poverty drove a couple in West Bengal to “sell” their toddler son to a neighbour for a symbolic price of 25 paise.
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Leprosy-stricken Sukumar Mondal and his wife Meera, who have two daughters, were then left with no option but to hand over their one-and-a-half year old son to their relatively better off neighbours Bimal and Swapna Ghosh, reports said.
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