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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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Excerpts:-
...............Growing economic opportunities for young people and
lower castes in Haryana have made "love marriages" more common,
experts say, and the violent repression of them has risen in tandem as
upper caste Jat men fight to hold on to power, status and
property.........
THE POWER OF UPPER CASTE MEN
The relatively prosperous northern state of Haryana is one of India's
most conservative when it comes to caste, marriage and the role of
women. Deeply patriarchal, caste purity is paramount and marriages are
arranged to sustain the status quo.
Men and women are still murdered across the villages of northern India
for daring to marry outside their caste, but in Haryana the practice
is widespread, and widely supported.
Here, women veil their faces with scarves in public. The illegal
abortion of female foetuses is common, the ratio of women to men in
Haryana just 861 to 1,000, the lowest in the country.........
Read the whole @ :-
http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKNOA63974220080516?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
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DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
