India fixates on comedy scandals while ignoring crucial issues like marital rape. A recent court ruling exposed a legal loophole allowing a minor’s marital rape. Instead of misplaced outrage, we must demand justice, legal reform, and dignity for women. Prioritizing real crimes over trivial controversies is long overdue.
As Titi stretched her hand to reach the stacked tea trays the shawl slipped from her shoulder exposing her back and arms – bare, save the straps of her nightdress, the one Sohini had assured her would not look daring in the confines of the bedroom.
Is the sanctity of holy matrimony still more important than the consent of women in India? It all sounds terribly like dark comedy. I mean what sort of a marriage is this, where a grown man doesn’t even know/understand something as basic as consent, right? Well, many marriages work this way. But that’s a story for another day.
