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Raipur, Chhattisgarh: A 16 year old girl was repeatedly raped and impregnated by her father starting in 2023. After an aunt learned of a first pregnancy, she and the father forced an abortion; a second pregnancy followed in 2025. To hide it, the father had the girl hidden and admitted to a hospital under forged documents (a fake Aadhaar showing her as an adult, married woman). She gave birth by surgery, and the baby was allegedly sold. She later contacted her mother via social media and reported the abuse to police. Eight people, including the father, an aunt, and a nurse, have been arrested, charged under rape, child sexual assault (POCSO), and child trafficking (Juvenile Justice Act) provisions.

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These punishments are deeply problematic and unacceptable. They reflect a strongly hierarchical society where women’s autonomy was heavily restricted, domestic violence could be legally justified, and women were subjected to harsh consequences while male behaviour was not always punished with equivalent severity for comparable conduct. The caste system made this inequality even sharper, because punishment could depend on whether the offender was male or female and which caste they belonged to.

These are not merely descriptions of ancient customs. This is danda niti, law and punishment.

Women are treated as subjects of male authority rather than autonomous equals, and sexual morality is not applied consistently to both sexes. The Matsya Purana, Chapter 227.

This is next level sexism, normalized in our society. A daughter is being valued for domestic labour, and a son portrayed as incapable of basic household work, as though cooking is inherently a girl's responsibility.

Also shaming his wife in class, being a mama's boy, saying boys can't do basic stuff, expecting that his daughter will do the unpaid domestic labour before she's even born is terrible. If responsibility is what he wants to teach, then it should be the same for both kids.

My mother's mother has three girl children, they live nearby so I frequently go to spend some time with them. Her daughters take care of her and she, being 70+, still sometimes wishes she had a baby boy. It's crazy how much previous generations, and even to a large extent our current generation, have normalized the idea that daughters are caregivers while sons are dependents.

Government school principal Sushil Kumar Rinwa in Pushkar, Ajmer, is facing molestation allegations after reportedly asking young girls about their size and showing them inappropriate images. Enraged students and villagers confronted him, with girl students blackening his face with ink in protest. Police detained him, and a molestation case is being registered as officials investigate and villagers demand his dismissal.

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'Luingamla' follows the life of a young girl, capturing what it means to live under Indian military occupation and the violence that comes with the military's presence in Nagaland. Luingamla was simply an innocent 14 year old with her whole life ahead of her, a life cut tragically short by Indian Army soldiers who, protected by impunity, do as they please in the Northeast.

The full film premiered, August 14th, in Ukhrul, though no release date for the online version has been announced yet. For now, only the trailer is available.

We try to justify everything the Indian Army does in the Valley and the Northeast. They aren't saints, and people need to be willing to talk about the atrocities committed by some personnel in both regions. I truly hope everyone watches Luingamla.

Luingamla, we miss you so deeply... This trailer left me extremely sad. The rampant violence, abuse, rape, and murder inflicted on the people of the Northeast by the Indian Army is unforgivable.

Just a couple of days ago, I posted a about the same issue, and today I came across similar case.

We may not even be aware of it, but this kind of shit still happens secretly in remote areas. How do we actually put a full stop to child marriage and statutory rape at the grassroots level?

Source- https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db-cGXntfbp

Indian ultra-marathon runner Sufiya Sufi has made the nation proud by completing a historic 4,167 km run from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. She finished this extraordinary journey in 68 days and 23 hours, earning her sixth Guinness World Record.

Saw this post somewhere describing her as "India's daughter", I mean, it’s fine, but why not use her name? Why reduce women to someone’s daughter, sister, wife or mother when they have an identity and achievements of their own? She trained, competed and accomplished something remarkable. So call her by her name.

Men aren’t constantly introduced as India’s son or defined by their relationships when they achieve something. So why is this the default for women? She isn’t India’s daughter first. She’s an accomplished individual with a name, an identity and an achievement of her own.

As I read about this case, I wanted to share something from my own experience too. My uncle and his family live in a village. Around 7–8 years ago, he found out that a child marriage was about to take place secretly. Both the bride and groom were minors, so he informed the police, and thankfully, the marriage was stopped. But when the people involved found out that he had reported it, they vilified him and told him not to interfere in their personal matters.

The law exists, but clearly, prevention, awareness and enforcement aren't reaching everyone effectively. These cases are genuinely disturbing, especially because child marriage is still so normalised in some rural and remote communities. I know child marriages have reduced significantly over the years, but there are still plenty of them happening in secrecy, especially in rural and remote areas. What more can we do to prevent and eventually eradicate child marriage and Statutory rape completely?

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A temple priest named sayanna allegedly sexually assaulted a minor inside the temple in the ramachandrapuram police station limits of cyberabad. The temple in ramachandrapuram had been locked from the outside, but the locals noticed the priest behaving sexually inappropriately with the girl inside. They opened the temple, caught him, and handed him over to the police. Police registered a case and began investigating. Locals also told police that other anti social/ illegal activities were taking place on the temple premises.

Canto 10, Chapter 22 of Bhagvata Purana:

Krsnā steals clothes of bathing women (Gopi Vastraharan)

Rāsa-līlā: Krishna dances with the gopis, including married women, and has romantic/erotic associations with them.

Rāsa-līlā: Śrīmad Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Canto 10, Chapters 29–33 — the Rāsa dance and Krishna’s romantic interactions with the gopīs. [Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Canto 10, Ch. 29–33]

In the text, it is described as "leela" (divine play). But Krsnā was consciously aware of him being Vishnu. Basically it was Vishnu who did that while being fully aware. Which is quite disgusting.