This is the second part of Early Marriage: Selling the Daughters. If graves and cemeteries could talk, they would tell the stories of those girls who killed themselves in protest against forced marriages. But the dead rest under the...

When I think of early marriage—forced marriage—I become mad and helpless. I have no tolerance for it. I want to shout out loud, so that all creatures of God could hear me. Early marriages are harmful to girls because...

Child marriage has devastating consequences on the child, on the family and in a long run, on the society. It is a dangerous practice which people undertake in the name of religion and culture. Poverty and illiteracy are one...

In Ancient India, the marriages of girls took place in their teens mostly. In matrilineal societies women had the freedom of choice .Our sacred texts mention the weddings of royal princesses such as Draupadi and Kunti, where the eligible...