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Saturday, May 3, 2025
TopicGotra

Topic: gotra

‘Unhappy’ about their marriage, man shoots at daughter & her husband in Haryana village, absconding

According to police, Kuldeep Singh pumped 6 bullets into his daughter, who is now in critical condition. The couple who reside in Charkhi Dadri are Jats but from different gotras.

Khattar rejects talk of law to ban same-gotra marriage in Haryana, lobs ball into Centre’s court

CM Khattar’s statement comes in backdrop of claims by Haryana’s Dalal khap that govt has initiated move to amend Hindu Marriage Act to ban same-gotra & same-village unions.

The scientific argument for marrying outside your caste

Community-based marriage systems remain prevalent in India despite rapid urbanisation and the proliferation of smaller families.

Rahul Gandhi’s discovery of his inner Brahmin is smart and audacious politics

Rahul Gandhi is audacious to mix his religion with Congress politics. He can win or perish, but can’t retreat from this Chakravyuha.

What are ‘gotras’ all about & how Rahul Gandhi gets ‘Dattatreya gotra’

According to Hindu tradition, gotra is traced back to the seven Vedic sages, and in some castes, gotras were created by professions and not by birth.

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Gen-Z is split down the middle. One side grew up on TikTok, the other yearns for Tumblr

Younger Gen-Zs envy their elder siblings. Not for the fashion, but for the ability to be unapologetically cringe. Back then, cringe wasn’t a crime, it was a rite of passage.

‘They said I don’t belong’—Kashmiri shawl vendors leave Mussoorie after 2 assaulted by local residents

16 vendors left Mussoorie following a hate crime in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. Police asked all of them to go back to Kashmir for 'their safety'.

Constable faces action for marrying Pakistani without CRPF nod as case comes to light after Pahalgam

The CRPF, in a 1 May communication, has said Constable Munir Ahmed married Pakistani national Menal Khan while his application for a departmental nod to marry her was still pending.

Caste census is a bad idea whose time has come. Much worse lies ahead

One of the reasons we call the caste census a bad idea is that so far, nobody has figured what to do with the data, except Rahul Gandhi.