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Akshaya Tritiya: Auspicious for performing child marriage in India!

Akshaya Tritiya, also known as Akha Teej is a Hindu and Jain holy day, that falls on the third Tithi (Lunar day) of Bright Half(Shukla Paksha) of the pan-Indian month of Vaishakha. Auspicious for performing child marriage in India!

This DAY is considered AUSPICIOUS and is the most Famous / Chosen day for PERFORMING Child Marriages…CHILD MARRIAGES is a common custom in Indian Villages and some cities, Its a custom, a tradition of sorts, and even the cops are Helpless against it

UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2012 report says that more than 40 per cent of the world’s child marriages happen in India.

So why is this day SO CHOSEN … Why is it considered for conducting CHILD MARRIAGES ? .. .it’s not that child marriages are not carried out on other DATES … Then why did I choose TODAY ???

"Akha Teej is considered an auspicious day, when one does not have to
 consult any astrologer. This is the best time for marriages ...
 Even our epics mention about child marriages. 
There is no harm in performing it, as the children do not live together 
and stay together only after attaining adulthood."
- Priest in Rajasthan


“In many communities where child marriage is practiced, girls are not valued as much as boys – they are seen as a burden,” Laura Dickinson, communications officer for Girls Not Brides said.

Read full article: http://therealmack.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/india-hotbed-of-child-marriages/

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The Hindu pokes The “Leader” again, this time on the chin!

Karuna Nundy from Cambridge Columbia writes on facebook page :
Kudos for taking it on the chin. If others were equally responsible it would give so much less ground to the restrictions on free speech being considered in Court 1.

The Hindu and Akshaya Tritiya

Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor of The Hindu writes in a box:

We carried a ‘jacket’ on Monday in our Tamil Nadu editions that featured a message — laid out in the form of an in-house advertisement — to readers on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya on behalf of “The Hindu”.

Neither I, as Editor of The Hindu, nor anyone from the editorial side, was involved in the drafting of this message. Nor did we know of, let alone approve, its contents.

For the record, it is not The Hindu’s editorial position that Akshaya Tritiya, an occasion that has risen to prominence only relatively recently, is one of “the most auspicious days in the Hindu religion.” Nor can we possibly endorse this statement — “The belief that buying gold on this day would make you prosperous throughout the year is shared by one and all” — or others contained in that message.

We have now taken internal steps to ensure that advertising messages put out in the name of The Hindu are consistent with its editorial policy and that our Code of Editorial Values, which says there is “a firm line between the business operations of the Company and editorial operations and content”, is strictly adhered to by all.

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