Tag: Ajmer
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Video story: Rajasthan’s lesbian couple defies all odds to live together
Jaipur: Ajmer residents where in for a shocked on Friday when two girls in their twenties approached Rajasthan Police, seeking protection from their families. The Rajasthani Lesbian couple– young girls declared their love for each other before the police and sought protection from their parents, who were against their same-sex relationship. One family had no…
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More the things change, more they stay the same
he more the things change, the more they stay the same. Even may get worse. It was in the early 1980s. I was posted in Indore. I wanted to see a judgement delivered by the court in Neemuch a few days earlier. I reached there by taking an overnight bus and was in the court…
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Married at 11, widowed at 15, an HIV positive survivour now saves lives
Ajmer: After losing her father at the age of nine, Asha Jat of Deranthu, Nasirabad (Rajasthan), had no option but to work as a daily wage child labour at a construction site. Two years later she was married off to a labour at the age of 11, only to be widowed at the age of…
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By-election results: Congress’ bloody blow to BJP in Rajasthan, TMC strengthen itself more in Bengal
Jaipur/Kolkata: By winning three out of three seats in Rajasthan’s by-election Congress has sent out a strong message to the ruling Vasundhara Raje led Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government, that the BJP will not have it easy now in State Assembly Election, scheduled to take place at the end of 2018. Meanwhile in Bengal, its…