For those who want to know, Ranchi is a district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is just west of the western tip of West Bengal.
- Aaron >To: "Proletarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Viren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Yahoo-Profile: vitits >Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:49:15 +0530 >Subject: [proletarism] Intercommunal marriage brings out the intolerance in society > > Evelyn's daughters thrown out of their home > SONALI DAS > > TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 04:08:15 AM ] > > KHUNTI, Ranchi: Evelyn Topno, a tribal Christian, has been denied dignity > even in death for marrying a Muslim boy in court. In fact, it has unleashed a debate > in liberal circles over the customary rights of the tribal Christian woman's three > grown-up daughters. > > > The threesome have been thrown out of their maternal house by kinsmen and > tribesmen on the ground that tribal customary law denies property rights to a woman > (read her mother) after marriage. > > According to an FIR lodged with the police by Evelyn's eldest daughter > Nalini, her maternal aunt Salwanti Topno, three maternal uncles and 150 other > tribesmen, trespassed into their house on September 7 this year, loaded all the > household articles on four rickshaws and dumped them at the bus stand. > > Ranchi-based Cardinal Thelsophore Topno condemns the "inhuman act" of the > girls being thrown out. > > "Once a Christian is always a Christian," the Cardinal told TNN, > explaining that after a child is baptised by the church, he/she continues to remain > a Christian irrespective of the community he/she is married into. > > The priest, however, refused to comment on whether the daughters had any > right to their mother's property. "It is for the society and their family folks to > decide," he said. > > Father Emanuel Balra, a teacher at St Xavier's College in Ranchi where > Evelyn's eldest daughter Nalini studies, says the girls, if baptised by the Roman > Catholic Church even after the GEL church had disowned their mother, have every > right to live on their mother's property till the time they are married. > > Only, they cannot live there with their Muslim father, he said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/1bSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Glory to October of 1917! Long Live the New October! E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://proletarism.org/ http://stachkom.org/ http://www.samara.ru/~stachkom/ ICQ# 42743890 Phone Stachkom Samara: (846-2) 352691, 353262. Community email addresses: Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletarism ---------------------------------------------- [stachkomru] -The language of this list is Russian. Community email addresses: Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stachkomru Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletarism/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
