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Written by Virag
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All the characters in the below story excerpt are fictitious and bear no resemblance whatsoever to any person living or dead, any resemblance is purely co-incidental.
Before going into the details of how the Mandavli Bill can be a serious concern for husbands, lets walkthrough a short imaginary story.
Ajay Mhandre is a hardworking professional who works as a business consultant in a reputed MNC, earning a handsome salary and had a nice and decent reputation in his office. Just like any other Indian man, Ajay is also married off to Shiela, who is a very beautiful, attractive and educated young girl. Ajay always encouraged her to work, given her educational background, but Shiela somehow refrained from doing so and preferred staying at home. Ajay does not force her.
Shiela always had an issue with the close proximity of Ajay to his parents, though they did not stay with them. However, one fine day they decide to visit the couple and hell breaks loose. Shiela makes a big issue out of it and tells Ajay clearly that his parents are not welcome. Ajay tries to reason with her, but in vain. Finally, she tells this to her parents and they ask her to wait till Ajay’s parents land there.
As soon as they land, Shiela and her parents swoop on them with the local police along with a complaint of dowry harassment under Section 498A. Ajay’s troubles only start from there, after that he is slapped with maintenance cases wherein she demands Rs. 40000 per month in two separate cases.
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Written by Sharon Verma
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It is good to note that various welfare groups in India take up the cause of downtrodden women. But a story in The Telegraph recently about a 71-year-old man in Kolkata who has committed suicide after his daughter-in-law threatened to file false complaints against him and his son under Sec 498A IPC (dowry law) makes me think that men need protection from women. This law, and several others like the Domestic Violence Act, are being misused by unscrupulous and crooked women to harass their husbands and in-laws. Yet, Indian society seems to think that all women are 'sati-savitris' who are incapable of lying and harassing their in-laws.
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Written by Xavier Alexander .R
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The filing of false cases against husbands/men by women are on the increase day by day. This is the direct outcome of gender biased laws framed in India such as the dowry law and the domestic violence act. Such laws have been crudely formed and is totally biased towards woman. What is appalling about these laws is that there is absolutely no redressal mechanism for the man even if heaven and earth knows that the man is innocent and the woman had filed such a case for devilish ulterior motives such as getting even for petty matters, extracting money, or even to have an extra marital affair.
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Written by Crusader
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In the last twelve years (1996 - 2008) 170,000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them. In a shocking revelation of suicide statistics for the year 2008 reveals that almost double the number of married men have committed suicide in comparison to married women as the report attached here corroborates. It states that in the year 2008 57,639 married men committed suicide in comparison to 30,224 married women whereas the same figures for the years 2007 57593 and 30,064, 2006 are 55,452 and 29,869 and for 2005 are 52,483 and 28,188.
While there has been a lot of hue and cry for domestic violence against women with various studies being sponsored for studying the same with tax payers’ money 82% of which comes from men, but sadly enough no study has ever been done in India for studying the prevalence, effects and trends of domestic violence against men or the statistics about it.
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Written by Virag
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Male hatred (misandry) has been there since ages. Misandry never started with the advent of feminism. Feminists merely amplified the existing misandry and encashed it for their sinister agenda of discriminating men, under the guise of a socially relevant term – “Gender Equality”.
There wasn’t any concept of feminism at the time of Titanic sinking but still it is said, when it sank, “The richest man on board had fewer chances of survival compared to the poorest woman on board.”
Why was it so? Because men, as a system, have always been hated, despised with, while women as a system have always been sympathized with and looked at with compassion; feminists decoded this social phenomena, amplified it and created a huge and real gender bias in the society for men under the cover of imaginary bias against women.
That’s the principal reason why discriminations against men have never been challenged – the motivating factor for the unbridled feminist utopia and constant negative ranting against men – be it in the media or social circles. In fact, media has been the primary amplifier of male hatred with repeated anti-male conversations on a large, wide, repetitive and imperative scale.
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Written by Crusader
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Before getting into the real topic of the article, I would like to take liberty to ask readers to have a look at this short TED video, “Dan Dennett: Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny” which talks about why babies are cute, babes are sexy, chocolate is sweet and jokes are funny. Contrary to popular perception, it’s not that because chocolate is sweet, we like it or because babes are sexy, guys get attracted to them or that because babies are cute, we find them adorable or because jokes are funny, we laugh at them.
In the video, philosopher Dan Dennett explains Darwin’s “Strange Inversion of Reasoning” which upholds absolute ignorance over absolute intelligence. As per that theory,
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Written by Suresh P
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Bangalore: An NGO, called Family Harmony Society held Seminar on 14-May-2010 on the eve of International Families Day in Bangalore to discuss the various threats faced by the Family in India, the consequences of systematic destruction of the Family, and what we need to do to check the alarming trend of rising number of divorces, single mothers, fatherless children, and disintegrated families.
“Family Harmony Society” – FHS – www.498a.org.in is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) promoting the cause of “family harmony” and “gender equality”. It is registered under “The Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960” and is based in Bangalore.
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Written by Crusader
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Family, the social unit, is the backbone of any country’s progress. The more stronger and stable is the family system of a country, better is the country’s progress. The most unique thing about family is the trust factor. However, in recent times, since the last decade or so, the family system of India is on a downhill. One of the major reasons of that, contrary to popular perception, is not due to modernization or western influence, but it is due to over-indulgence and interference of the Government as we will see it in the article.
Before talking about the interference of the Government, I would like to mention here about the principle of Laissez-Faire. The principle of Laissez-Faire tells that –
“The theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs.”
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