1.White blanket test: Imagine you being a Priyanka of 26 years. On your wedding night, you will be expected to submit yourself to a humiliating ritual. You need to give a purity test. You will go inside with a white bedsheet and he has to come out with a red bloodstain on it.
If you don’t bleed on your wedding night, you can be subjected to beating and communal humiliation — even a divorce.
The wedding night virginity test is practiced by tribal groups of India at the behest of tribal elders.
Doctors claim that hymen in women can be ruptured without sexual intercourse and not all women bleed when it's broken.
2.Muslim Personal Laws: Imagine you being Asha from a poor family. You are denied of getting an education. You are confined to household work. At the age of 18, you got married to Faiyaz. After 2 years, your husband married another woman and divorced you. According to personal laws, you didn’t get maintenance after three months. Your life became miserable.
Personal Laws acted as a tool of oppression of the women through which they are suppressed citing religious and social obligation.
3. FGM(Female genital mutilation): Imagine you being a 5 years old Sara . Your grandmother forcefully removed your genitalia with the help of the blade. you screamed with pain but she didn’t stop.
FGM is carried out to control women's and girls' sexuality. Doctors claim that FGM can result in serious health complications, including infections, chronic pain, and infertility. It can even be deadly.
What disgusts me?
Our Media has time to debate about Bollywood gossips.
But they don’t have time to raise their voice against these issues.
