“Order! Order!” Why should you bother?
Well here’s why:
Marriages are no longer made only in heaven (and our desi living rooms over tray-fulls of chai-nashta). Courts, too, appear to be growing increasingly invested in marriages: asking parties if they are interested in getting engaged in holy matrimony and providing pertinent matrimonial inputs while hearing sexual assault cases.
On 1 March, the Chief Justice of India had asked a government employee if he would marry the woman who had accused him of repeatedly raping her.
On the same day, while hearing a sexual assault case, he had said: “When two people are living as husband and wife, however brutal the husband is, can the act of sexual intercourse between them be called…
