Honour Killings - Shame Or Pride??
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To be young and in love has proved fatal for many young girls and boys in parts of north India as an intolerant and bigoted society refuses to accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum, especially when it comes to women. The two teenage girls who were shot dead last week by a cousin in Noida for daring to run away to meet their boyfriends are the latest victims of honour killings, a euphemism for doing away with anyone seen as spoiling the family's reputation.
Many such killings are happening with regularity in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. These are socially sanctioned by caste panchayats and carried out by mobs with the connivance of family members. The usual remedy to such murders is to suggest that society must be prevailed upon to be more gender-sensitive and shed prejudices of caste and class.
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Are We Really Safe In This Selfish Mean Minded Society........Is the Existence Idendity Of Women On The Verge Of Being Extinct!! Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family 'honor.' It's difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies. Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women's Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affa...
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Jaygopal Raghavan
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Obviously it is a shame as no killing can be a matter of pride - honour or otherwise. Only the demented and uneducated will take recourse to such measures. Demented because a lot of educated people themselves are a party to such an act. These dont...
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Mohammad Harun
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U may think dat m levng d track bt plz thnk on it. basicly v r 4gtng our culture coz it is d bst in d world & it says dat v shud follow our religion whch v r ignoring nw a dez. If start following d same women will get der honour bck as evry...
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Mayukh Mukherjee
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Killings can't be justified anyway...and honor(???) killing is just another curse of the age old problem of caste-ism in the traditional Indian society. If we can't address and solve these problems, then we should not allow us to call ourselves a...
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Insight: "Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honour" - Is it Justified????" deleted from your view.
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Its a crime
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Its not a crime
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Ravi Gautam
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Yes, it's a crime ; by every standard
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rahul p rinayat
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"Its not a crime"
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santosh, castism is perfect genetical science if you have doubts then read the books of Griffiths, William M. Miller, Jeffrey H. you will understand. what you think ancient arya who rule the world were fool we are only intelligent ? say thanks to...
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Tina acharya
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"Its not a crime"
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Marrying a person outside the cast is definitely not a crime but in our society when such things happen it is the family members of both the couples who have to pay the price for it.It is not a practice generally followed....so people don't...
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Debate: "Is marrying a person from outside caste a crime still in India?" deleted from your view.
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ASHUTOSH SRIVASTAVA
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actually we have no honour to the live of person or individuality of person so we can't stop it. it is bound to happen till we don't giveup the our attitude of compelling the people to follow only your ideas without any freedom to choose or thin...
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Naveen kumar singh
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i may be too straight in saying bt what i feel that there are many bad things which can be stopped (including honour killing of course)and many good things which can be started but for that we have to jump in to actions rather just discussions....
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Himanshu Pathak
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From the bottom of my heart I really feel sorry for those innocent lives that were lost to the hands of their mean minded parents relatives. In no books, religion no holy books it is written that killing people who are in love will justify the...
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Debate: " Can we stop honour killings in India? " deleted from your view.
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Muhammad Salman
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On one hand, we are proud to say that India is becoming a developed nation and and on the other hand, by saying yes to caste based census, we are showing the world that we are still in clutches of caste based division of society.
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Kandavel Raja
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Yes, Reservation is nothing but a correction for what has happened in history. Today everyone have jumped like anything against reservation, just remind the olden days. The same reservation was put in Reverse, that only a particular caste only...
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Manoj Kumar
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It is absolutely not necessary in this fast placed developing era. As India going to be a global power along with other bigs, if news and statitics can be believed it seems to a political way of getting into the vote bank. If it is any thing for...
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Debate: "CASTE BASED CENSUS: IS IT NECESSARY OR NOT" deleted from your view.
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Honour Killing - A Growing Concern Guys, here is something which will give an idea about the barbaric activities happening recently.... It might be time to apply a psychoanalytical approach to honour killings and other social issues of our times, in order to devise ways to engage with pathologies at a community level, says Rakesh Shukla (Supreme Court Lawyer) The killing in July 2009 of 21-year-old Ved Pal in Singhwal village in Haryana when he had gone, accompanied by policemen, to pick up his wife Sonia, has re-focused attention on the honour killings of couples in accordance with a decision by the khap, or caste panchayat, and with the community’s complete approval. In this particular ca...
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Vikram Gaur
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If you check the news, All so called honour killings are done be girls family. Why? Whole society is responsible for these killings.
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NATTERAJA R. ARIKRISHNAN
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Mr.Ayan, it is really ridiculous and condemnable. In a civilized society like us it should not happen. The level of education and understanding the central issue for the problems are missing. For any problem, there is a solution if properly...
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Rathin Deb
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Simply unbelivable though I was watching a debate in NDTV regarding Khap Panchyat some days back but the it is so deep rooted not known to me. I think the Panch Pradhan and members of the panchyat should be killed by bullets without any mercy....
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Krishnamurthy Prabhakar
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Whenever progressive forces rise their head in our country for emancipation of women, harijans, girijans the orthodoxy finds a reason to put it down with iron hand. The patriarchal system that is prevalent in different parts of the country could...
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ASOKE KUSARI
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Kavita, there was no political parties in 1700's, the British Raj was there ................................ And ... Corporates, Bourocrats, Media, Intellectuals, Freelancers etc. do not represent country ? They are only to eat the froots and all...
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Kavitha Shankar
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During the 1700s, the Sati system was very much prominant in Indian society and was almost impossible to stop. Had the British government, not taken actions against it and imposed rules against it, it would have never stopped. In the same way,...
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Debate: "Should political parties be forced to take a position on honour killings?" deleted from your view.
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Sanjay Kumar . G
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These kind of things will never stop in country like India, unlike or until people realise coz through law and rules and policing people wont adhere... So its just their conscious need to play... Even strict laws are useless coz with the...
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Hitesh Kumar
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These people do honor killing just to satisfy their ego....they have nothing to do with prestige of the family....after doing a murder or two of your family Does your family stand on a high in society.....they are the weeds of the society...and...
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Neelima Pandey
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Honour Killings can be reduced by a better policing, that's the way to control it on the face, but same time this issue need to be sorted out by social awareness, like campains and all, Most Importantly to stop the old practice of the asking...
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Debate: "Can honour killings be stopped by better policing?" deleted from your view.
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Krishna Bhardwaj
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No, I don't think people will accept this idea. As on date in rural part of India they use to believe that the same Gotra persons are their siblings. We may or may not be called modern but we are still attached to our routes. People those who...
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aashiesh pendsay
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LEAVE IT TO THE BOY AND GIRL AND TO THEIR FAMILIES AT THIS MOMENT WE HAVE MORE SERIOUS ISSUES NEED TO BE ATTENDED TO IN INDIA LIKE TERRORISM AND CORRUPTION WHICH ARE MORE DANGROUS THAN THOSE OPPOSING SAME GOTRA MARRIAGE
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Debate: "Will people accept same gotra marriage?" deleted from your view.
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kalpeshchavhan
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since las many yrs. we Havebeen victim of jihad ( terrorisam) for that we have never blammed islam. But since last few yrs. terroriests have picked up nice weapon against us is using targetting girls from other religion for jihadi activity is...
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Debate: "Love jihad ( forceful religious converson)" deleted from your view.
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We are social animal we must respect society.
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No in love and war everything is right
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Amit Misra
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"We are social animal we must respect society."
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Individuals being an integral part of society should learn to respect society. any deviation from threads of social fabric must be supported by logic and not by "i dont care" attitude. We have grown to this level just because of our social...
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Ramesh Babu
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"No in love and war everything is right"
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There are two types of Honour Killing - the Honourable and the Dishonourable. The Honourable is , say , where someone is trying to defile a woman and you kill him. The dishonourable is when you kill for honour based on archaic principles,...
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Asmita Rai
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"We are social animal we must respect society."
| 2 years ago
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Krishan thats true once people start respecting the society these mistakes will reduce. We live in a society where we are watched by everyone, so during relationships we should have fear as well as respect on the society which will help us to...
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