Hindu Marriage

Hindu Marriage Act must keep up with times to provide protection to partners, children in live-in relationships

The scope of marriage under the HMA must be expanded to accommodate the changes in society and to provide legal protection to the rights of partners and children born out of non-marriages.

In Bihar, two drunk grooms got no brides

Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled.