[Levin]

By Faisal Fareed
3 Sep 2021


New Delhi, India – Sonam Kumari left her house in the eastern Indian state of Bihar after her parents began to plan her marriage last year.

The 19-year-old resident of the state capital, Patna, tried hard to convince her parents to allow her to continue her studies and delay the marriage.

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“I wanted to study but my parents did not listen. I was left with no choice but to leave the house,” she told Al Jazeera.

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Last month, Sonam decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to increase the marriage age for girls to 21, like it is for the boys, “so that we can complete our studies”.

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Hundreds of girls from the state have written similar letters to Modi, who himself promised last year to review the minimum age for marriage for women during his independence day speech.

Currently, the minimum age of consent for marriage is 18 and 21 years for women and men


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/3/...ised-to-21

[dynamite]

This country is hopeless

[Galilo_l]

Promises promises... all empty

[alanis]

Modi depends on votes to survive. He has to scam for more voters to support him and his party. Other things are not important, unless such issues can help him win more votes!

[debono]

By Faisal Fareed
3 Sep 2021


New Delhi, India – Sonam Kumari left her house in the eastern Indian state of Bihar after her parents began to plan her marriage last year.

The 19-year-old resident of the state capital, Patna, tried hard to convince her parents to allow her to continue her studies and delay the marriage.

......

“I wanted to study but my parents did not listen. I was left with no choice but to leave the house,” she told Al Jazeera.

......

Last month, Sonam decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to increase the marriage age for girls to 21, like it is for the boys, “so that we can complete our studies”.

......

Hundreds of girls from the state have written similar letters to Modi, who himself promised last year to review the minimum age for marriage for women during his independence day speech.

Currently, the minimum age of consent for marriage is 18 and 21 years for women and men


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/3/...ised-to-21

At the age of 18 is a women most fertile period.

[Fit]

I think first of all, females have to be treated with dignity, not sex toys, to be gang raped!

[halya]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/6/...ds-poverty
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[debono]

I think first of all, females have to be treated with dignity, not sex toys, to be gang raped!

Females in India are targets of gang rapes.