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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicIndian bride

Topic: Indian bride

A bride enjoying her wedding day is a radical act

They say a happy bride is the best bride. To me, this once felt like a redundant statement. It’s her wedding, duh. Of course,...

No air conditioning, no marriage: Agra bride walks out on wedding, dowry case follows

Police say the bride told her parents that in a house where there is no respect for her and such a basic facility could not be arranged, her life would 'become hell', and she refused to marry.

Haryana’s desperate bachelors bought wives. They turned out to be ‘loot-and-scoot’ brides

'Our society deserves this. This is karma hitting us back for aborting our girl children,' says a father-in-law who was served poisoned tea by a 'looteri dulhan'.

Mangni and Nikaah — how Assamese Muslim marriages combine Hindu and Islamic traditions

In ‘The Identity Quotient’, Zafri Mudasser Nofil studies indigenous Muslims of Assam and how they have contributed to the composite heritage of the state.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.