Tag Archives: marriage

Conversion and Polygamy

Friday, February 27, 2009

My uncle sent me this simultaneously amusing and disturbing article on Wednesday that I thought might interest the readers of Swadharma.  From the Wall Street Journal, it details the Bollywood-fit shenanigans of Indian politician Chander Mohan.  Putting aside the melodrama of job dismissal, kidnap, overdose, and rape (really, just click on the link and read [...]

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The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955

Saturday, December 6, 2008

There’s an interesting article on The Hindu today, that seems to be straight out of Walt Disney’s nightmares. A Hindu girl married a Christian boy, but because the boy lied about his faith in order to have a Hindu wedding, she appealed to the local courts in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, to declare the marriage void. [...]

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