so goes a heading in the times of India today….here’s the link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1098622.cms

Sheer example of women power, I’d say. So this reinstates my belief that there are cases of men being harassed also. And I also know that there are many such cases that go unreported, of uncooperating wives, nagging wives, wives who think they are smarter and try to look down upon their husbands, sometimes even embarrasing them in public. In countries like the US, husbands are also entitled by the law to file harassment cases against their wives…but do we have such provsions in India?

Then there is this another interesting story : http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?
Daily=CAP&Enter=true&Skin=TOI&GZ=T&AW=1115266656218

where a man is asking the court to prevent his wife from having an abortion. This is a really complicated set of questions out here.

1. Does a woman have the absolute right to abort a child, without the consent of her husband?
2. Does the court have enough authority to prevent a woman from aborting, on request from her husband?
3. Even if the woman is stopped from aborting the child, will she also not have the right to ever visit or see that child(considering that she never wanted the kid in the first place)?
4. Can a man be given the full responsibility of raising the kid alone(considering that the mother is needed during the first few months)?

The funniest part in this entire episode is the reason for the couple’s seperation. In the husband’s words: “Upon her return she began to have bouts of homesickness and said she could not bear the thought of spending the rest of her life here,”…homesickness after marriage?? Another debatable issue…

Can homesickness be a ground for divorce? Does marrying a man who lives in another state not mean agreeing to live with him far from your home??

Lets see how these two cases turn up in the future!