Why divorce should be easy!

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Couples come together for a common purpose. They bear children and start parenting them. But at times, they may grow apart and not want to remain a couple. They may want to separate. But society and law often prevents this separation. Because they feel that children might get affected due to the separation. Hence, law has made divorce difficult and asks couples the reason for the separation. They need to show some fault in the partner in order to get legal separation. But this only opens another Pandora's box in which false accusations and blame game begins. This is unhealthy and stressful not only for the couple but also for their children. Divorce of their parents does affect children. It can lead to stress and academic struggles in them. They might suffer severe mental stress and demonstrate behaviour changes in them. They may have anxiety, depression, feeling of guilt and shame and sadness. This may affect them in school and their social circle. They could become an object of r...
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Awful and bizarre rituals and customs of India

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 India claims to be cultural, religious, and spiritual. It has a host of weird traditions and rituals that stand to no logic and are a waste of time, efforts, and money. It is unfortunate that education has not changed the mindset of majority of the educated people there and they continue with these 'dead' and meaningless traditions even today. The last few years have seen more of such regressive rituals that benefits no one and harms people and environment. 

1. Marriage with animals

In this, particular people are made to marry animals such as a dog or goat or a tree. After this, they can marry a human being. Such weddings are done of people who are said to have an ill-luck due to their birth date and time. They are born at some wrong time when the astrological combination was supposedly not good. They are called Mangliks. It is said that whomever they first marry will die. Hence these people are first married to animals or trees so that the curse befalls on the animals or trees!!!! And after that they can marry the human being of their choice. It has not been studied whether the poor animal whom they married died soon after the 'fake' wedding or whether the tree that they were married too withered away soon after!!! If not, then what is the need and role of such a bizarre practice?

2. Baby throwing or dropping from a tower

This is a risky practice and continues in Maharashtra despite bans. In this, parents drop their infant from a high tower onto the ground where villagers are holding a sheet of cloth. It seems this bestows the child with a healthy life. This is a type of child abuse. It is not known whether any infant died in this but then figures of crimes in this land are always suppressed. 

3. Alcohol as offerings to God

There is a place in Punjab near the village of Bhoma where there is a tomb of a fakir. People go to worship at this place and couples go there after weddings. The offerings is alcohol. You guessed it right. Alcoholics throng the place to lay their hands on the free alcohol there. During times when many people visit the shrine, alcoholics get a larger share of alcohol each and some of them are seen dead by drowning in the river that is flowing beside the tomb. 

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4. Bani festival and self-hitting

At the Devaragattu Temple in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, during this festival, people hit self with sticks the whole night. In the past, they used to use spears and axes for it. Police and medical people are at standby to help the injured. 

Thaipoosam (Source: Alamy)

5. Thaipoosam

This is done in Tamil Nadu. After 48 days of fasting,  devotees pierce their body with hooks, lances, and skewers. They pierce their cheeks and tongue with it. 

6. Aghori and cannabalism

Aghori is a community that subsists on dead people. Their clothes come from that of dead people, their firewood from the wood used in pyre, and food from the Ganges river. They also eat raw meat of dead bodies found floating on the river. 

Will there be a ban or stopping of these bad customs? No sign of it! The politicians themselves are a superstitious lot and intellectuals reduced to a minority there!


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