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According to a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court an estranged daughter-in-law has the right to live in her in-laws’ home and can therefore not be thrown out by her husband or his family. A three-judge bench judgement of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah overrides a two-judge verdict in S.R. Batra […]
“How did you permit your unmarried daughter to work and settle abroad?”. In a single question to my mother, a “well-meaning” relative bluntly articulated the mind-set, deeply ingrained within patrilineal family structures of Indian society, that women exist only in relation to a man and without a husband she is but a ship without sails. […]
