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In Sport, Gender Equality is an elusive goal.

  – Jitendra Nath Misra   Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador and vice-president of Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society. Observing sport has many takeaways. One of them is gender discrimination. Sports meritocrats usually argue that sport is for all to see, and thus gender- blind. Sport is a concrete activity, with a victor […]

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‘Consent’ vs. ‘The Institution of Marriage’: The question of Marital Rape

“But the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retract”, said Sir Mathew Hale, Chief Justice of England prior to his death in 1676. While […]