We’ve been told for generations that marriage is the foundation of society. That it’s sacred, stabilizing, and somehow central to a woman’s worth. But here’s the question we’ve finally started to ask, ...

New Delhi — India's government has told the country's Supreme Court that criminalizing marital rape would be "excessively harsh," as it opposes petitions with the court seeking to amend a British ...

Over 20 parliamentarians from different political parties came together on Wednesday to chart a roadmap for making India free ...

India’s laws criminalize child marriage and holds everyone involved, from family members, guests, to even service providers such as florists, caterers, horse vendors, priests, or imams, legally ...

Marriage in India is not just a personal milestone—it’s a social institution, a financial event and, in many ways, a microcosm of the country's larger ecosystem. For generations, families have ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Three first-generation Indian Christians face strong societal and familial pressures. Rethinam, a 45-year-old woman from rural Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state in India, hates looking at her wedding ...

Under our Constitution and our present laws, girls over 18 and boys over 21 can marry whoever they want, regardless of region ...