In India, boy meets girl, proposes — and gets accused of jihad
3 years, 2 months ago

In India, boy meets girl, proposes — and gets accused of jihad

NPR  

In India, boy meets girl, proposes — and gets accused of jihad Enlarge this image toggle caption Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images NEW DELHI — Inside a former army barracks, Simran Sagar sings a Hindi love song as she makes tea for her fiancé on what they hoped would be their wedding day. Asia A New Law In India Is Making It Harder For Interfaith Couples To Get Married A New Law In India Is Making It Harder For Interfaith Couples To Get Married Listen · 5:48 5:48 Asia India's New Laws Against 'Love Jihad' Give Hindu Conservatives Power To Halt Weddings India's New Laws Against 'Love Jihad' Give Hindu Conservatives Power To Halt Weddings Listen · 4:49 4:49 This is not how they imagined their first home together: a mattress on the floor, a hot plate to cook on and a police guard stationed out front. But the police are against it," says Asif Iqbal, co-founder of a national support group called Dhanak, "rainbow" in Urdu, which advocates for the right to choose one's own spouse and counsels thousands of interfaith couples annually, including Sagar and Shameem. Sharma worked in local politics in the past, and his new reputation as an enforcer of his state's "love jihad" law has bolstered his standing among Hindu nationalists.

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Disapproving interfaith love marriage, Muslim girl’s family assaults her Hindu husband and drags her away in Amroha
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Disapproving interfaith love marriage, Muslim girl’s family assaults her Hindu husband and drags her away in Amroha

Op India  

After a Hindu boy married his Muslim lover in Uttar Pradesh, the family of the girl attacked the boy’s family and forcibly took the girl with them. After the boy’s family lodged a complaint, a police case was registered against the girl’s father and others. As per reports, a Muslim girl and a Hindu boy named Vipin Singh fell in …

Marriage Equality: How Indian media has depicted same-sex marriages
1 year, 2 months ago

Marriage Equality: How Indian media has depicted same-sex marriages

Hindustan Times  

In 2012, a New Indian Express article announced, “In UP, Gay Couple Get Marriage 'Registered' in Court.” The couple in question had had their marriage registered under the Hindu Marriage Act. For instance, a Times of India article dated February 24, 1988, describes the police constables Urmila and Leela’s “sensational marriage” as a “protest against society’s treatment of lonely and …

Interfaith marriages | As vigilante groups thrive, couples try to survive
1 year, 6 months ago

Interfaith marriages | As vigilante groups thrive, couples try to survive

The Hindu  

In Little Angel Toys Shop in Paltan Bazar, Vikas Verma is trying to sell a pink unicorn to a customer. The couple and their families must be identified, Verma urges, and the woman, who has “fallen into the trap of ‘love jihad’, must be ‘counselled’.” The Special Marriage Act requires couples to submit a notice of intended marriage. It is …

Inter-faith couples face harassment, threats and violence: Madhya Pradesh High Court
1 year, 8 months ago

Inter-faith couples face harassment, threats and violence: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Hindu  

Holding that “the societal opposition to interreligion marriage often makes it difficult for couples to exercise their legal rights”, the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on April 18 quashed a three-year-old case of cheating against a married couple from Ujjain and the manager of a temple where their marriage was performed. Emphasising on the harassment faced by …

Queer couple dreaming of a baraat in rural north India ask how marriage equality is an ‘urban elitist’ matter
1 year, 8 months ago

Queer couple dreaming of a baraat in rural north India ask how marriage equality is an ‘urban elitist’ matter

The Hindu  

Among the 20 petitioners seeking legalisation of same-sex marriage by the Supreme Court are a couple who say their lives are proof against the Centre’s stance that the petition reflects “urban elitist views”. “On various occasions, they would tell me that if I can’t bring a baraat to their doorsteps for their daughter, then I should stop wasting Bhawna’s time …

In India, couples begin their legal battle for same-sex marriage
1 year, 10 months ago

In India, couples begin their legal battle for same-sex marriage

NPR  

In India, couples begin their legal battle for same-sex marriage Enlarge this image toggle caption Altaf Qadri/AP Altaf Qadri/AP NEW DELHI — Utkarsh Saxena and Ananya Kotia's love story began just like any other college romance. If legalized, India would become the second economy in Asia after Taiwan to recognize same-sex marriage, a significant right for the country's LGBTQ community …

Why Maharashtra panel on interfaith marriages has sparked outcry
2 years ago

Why Maharashtra panel on interfaith marriages has sparked outcry

India Today  

The Maharashtra government has set up a 13-member committee to monitor interfaith marriages, raising larger questions around issues such as privacy and the right to personal choice. On December 13, the state government issued a government resolution appointing the committee under minister for women and child development Mangal Prabhat Lodha.The ‘Inter-caste/ Interfaith Marriage-Family Coordination Committee ’ was tasked with maintaining …

Interfaith marriage sparks political row in Kerala after relatives of bride alleges 'love jihad'
2 years, 8 months ago

Interfaith marriage sparks political row in Kerala after relatives of bride alleges 'love jihad'

Firstpost  

Relatives of Jyotsna Mary Joseph, a nurse in Saudi Arabia, levelled ’love jihad’ allegations after she recently walked out on her family and married Shejin, a local DYFI leader belonging to the Muslim community, without their consent Kozhikode: A recent interfaith marriage of a Muslim activist of the ruling CPI’s youth wing DYFI, has stirred up a political storm after …

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
3 years ago

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Associated Press  

BELAGAVI, India — Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. While interfaith unions between Hindus and Muslims are rare in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and other Hindu nationalists have forcefully decried what they call “love jihad.” The discredited …

Hindus Being Tricked into Marriage by Love Jihad, Says Metro Man E Sreedharan Ahead of Joining BJP
3 years, 10 months ago

Hindus Being Tricked into Marriage by Love Jihad, Says Metro Man E Sreedharan Ahead of Joining BJP

News 18  

E Sreedharan, popularly known as the “Metro Man” of India on Friday said that he was opposed to the notion of ‘love jihad’ because he has seen Hindu girls in Kerala being tricked into marriage. Now that sort of a thing I certainly will oppose,” Sreedharan told NDTV in response to a question on ‘love jihad’. Sreedharan comments come when …

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