When a Woman in India Chooses Not to Take Her Husband’s Surname
From facing social pressures to financial setbacks, women recount the tribulations that followed because they kept their maiden names.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
From facing social pressures to financial setbacks, women recount the tribulations that followed because they kept their maiden names.
While the northern powers are largely responsible for the climate crisis, the countries of the Global South suffer the most, yet can’t afford to pay for its consequences. Meanwhile, the major fossil-fuel companies continue to rake in staggering profits – they are the real terrorists of Planet Earth.
The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments and movements in Latin America. The coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public pressure and policy can undo it.
Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the US Dollar.
Every child in the States is taught that in 1621, Pilgrims and the ‘Indians’ sat down and had a ‘peaceful’ meal. The bloody slaughter that the Indigenous people faced from the newcomers soon after is forgotten. US Indigenous organiser Maria Whitehorse and her group are seeking to correct this unfair history.
A colonial-era land grab in Kenya saw Britain evict half a million people. Now survivors are confronting some of the UK’s most powerful institutions, from Unilever to King Charles, in a bid to reclaim their land.
Britain has opened negotiations with Mauritius on the question of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago with the aim “to resolve all outstanding issues.” The cruel, dishonest and shameful story of Britain’s last colony may be coming to an end.
Many of Iran’s most vocal feminists are languishing in prison. Nevertheless, women in Iran continue their fight. Through their fight, women in Iran are building solidarity that transcends national, class, racial and religious lines.
On 26th November 1949, our great freedom struggle’s legacy and the aspirations of our people were united in a single document and thus began our national life towards the fulfilment of the ideals enshrined in the Constitution.
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