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TopicVirginity test

Topic: Virginity test

Why Madhya Pradesh High Court rejected a husband’s plea seeking wife’s ‘virginity’ test

Khadija Khan -
In his plea, the petitioner had sought divorce on the ground of cruelty, saying that his wife refused to enter into a physical relationship.

Amazon takes down fake virginity product amid outrage and debate in India

Ekta Handa -
From artificial hymens to pills that secrete 'blood', a look at how Indian women are being sold their 'virtue' online.

Maha tribe that conducts ‘virginity tests’ to take its reformist rebel youth to court

Manasi Phadke -
Kanjarbhat elders say the youngsters have misrepresented the tribe, insist the virginity tests are decided by families, not caste panchayats.

‘Blood on the bedsheet a must’: How this Indian tribe keeps horrific virginity test alive

Manasi Phadke -
At the behest of community elders, the Kanjarbhat tribe still practices ‘gun’. But now, community youth have taken up cudgels to bring about a change.

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Opinion

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

Gitanjali Das -
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.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

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

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

Defence

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

Vaibhav Pant -
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.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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