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July 01, 2010By Sharanya Manivannan LIKE MANY WOMEN, my reaction — or shall we say relationship? — to Elizabeth Gilbert’s juggernaut bestseller Eat Pray Love (first published and 2006 and by 2008 a global sensation) was complicated. On the one hand, the book is mildly embarrassing; Eat Pray Love falls squarely in the chick [...] Tags: Books, chick-lit, choices, Committed, divorce, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Institutions, Law, literature, Marriage, Relationships, women and literature | Category: Books, Love, Marriage, Popular Culture, Relationships, Women's Lives |
October 10, 2008By Sharanya Manivannan UNMANA INITIATED a lively discussion on marriage a few weeks ago, and there is news now that the institution as we legally define it in India may be set to change. Maharashtra is picking up the cause of legalising live-in relationships and providing more rights to extramarital female parties within a marriage. The state cabinet [...] Tags: Institutions, Law, live-in, Marriage, Relationships, spouse, wife | Category: Institutions, Law, Marriage, Relationships, Women's Lives |
September 16, 2008By Unmana Datta HELLO UV READERS! I’m excited to be writing my first post here. And going by the old feminist slogan, “the personal is political”, my first post is about something that is intensely personal: marriage. My views on marriage have always been ambivalent. Even as a child, I recognized that most marriages I saw around me [...] Tags: couples, living together, Love, Marriage, Relationships, sexism, stereotypes | Category: Culture, Law, Love, Marriage, Morality, Society, Women's Lives |
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