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A female lawyer in India had a sex change to save herself from a forced marriage by her family.
After her sex reassignment surgery, the woman, in her mid-30s, said: “I feel free now. No one can force me to marry. It is better to become a man to get rid of sufferings met by women.”... read more
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Pankaj Kishore Karotia, 21, was just about to claim his new bride and take her from a wedding reception to her family home when his uncle drew his licensed handgun to fire a final shot in celebration. As he was loading it, it fired accidentally and hit his newly-wed nephew in the head.
The re... read more
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In an act of religious piety, hundreds of thousands of Indian women have their heads shaved, unaware that their valuable hair is then harvested and used to support a multi-million-dollar fashion industry in the West.
It sounds like the ultimate story of exploitation. But is it?
When In... read more
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Limit displays of affection as you celebrate Valentine’s Day or face prosecution, authorities in western India are warning the public.
Police have banned what they call shows of obscenity, noisy celebrations, and the use of liquor and colored powders from Wednesday till February 15 in t... read more
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Can downward dog transform murderers into model citizens?
That’s the philosophy behind a program in India’s state of Madhya Pradesh where prisons offer special yoga classes to the incarcerated. Instead of breaking rocks, they learn yoga positions, like the downward dog which is wh... read more
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The small print in a full-page newspaper advertisements for a key Hindu event reflects one of India’s biggest worries — dirty water.
“Avoid using pollutants such as detergents and soaps in the holy Ganga,” reads one of the don’ts at the bottom of the government a... read more
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Indian computer users enter “sex” into search engines more than users in any other country, but Internet firms have moved to deliver only sanitized results to the nation.
Yahoo’s search engine and the Flickr photo-sharing site have switched the entire country’s setting... read more
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The 86-year-old governor of a southern Indian state resigned Saturday, a day after a television news channel broadcast a tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women, an official said.
Gov. Narain Dutt Tiwari’s office has denied the allegation, denouncing the tape as fabricated.
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