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SIF One - Helpline for Men - Completes 1 Year

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8882-498-498 (SIF One) - Finishes One Year. Year of Happiness and Heart Tearing Moments              

Marital Rape in India - Gandhari Society

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GANDHARI SOCIETY – MARITAL RAPE While we turn pages of our world known epics like Ramayana, we would read about a time when Lord Ram was able to raise Lord Shiva’s bow ‘ गांडीव ’ and broke it. This was required as per the want of the challenge. This made, most ardent follower of Lord Shiva, Lord Parashuram very angry. Lord Ram’s younger brother, Prince Lakshman, then requested Lord Parashuram to ignore what has happened and believe that his eyes are closed and hence nothing has happened. Lakshman said, “ मूंदे आँख कत्हू कछु नाहि ”. Another world known epic, Mahabharata, depicts the mother or Kaurava’s, Gandhari, who pledged to remain blind folded to show solidarity with her blind Husband, Lord Dhritrashtra. The symbolic of being blind-folded was also to depict that knowingly, she closed her eyes to all wrong that her pedigree was doing. Both these Mythological epics which also derive and depict a lot about our society, tell us one thing that we as Human beings choose to