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Playing tough
Naseeruddin Shah tells AYESHA mATTHAN about the importance of theatre in making political statements

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CRAIG'S CALL
Made for each other?
Are you in it with the right person?

Citylife

The good baddie
Actor Rahul Dev talks about his forthcoming films

The Supreme Court has recently asked all the States and Union Territories to have legislation in place to make registration of marriage compulsory across all religions. The National Commission of Women had observed that compulsory registration ...

Many women don’t go immediately after the wedding function because they have heard of long waits outside the registrar’s office. They don’t have patience for this after the ceremony. Inter religious marriages take longer, ...

Registration is important especially today, since many people work in different parts of the world. If the records are made only in the local religious centres, it will be difficult to check bigamy. Instead, if the couple registered their ...

It is definitely a good decision and beneficial to women irrespective of their religion. It will protect their rights and does not infringe on their religious beliefs. The order does not deny them the rights to hold any religious ceremony. It ...

My husband and I went immediately after marriage, but the registrar’s office asked us to come back after a month. This was because they had to put up a notice in the office for a month, during which no objection should be received. We ...

I have not registered my marriage (held on October 25, 2006) because it was held at Coimbatore, and I work in Chennai. To register it, I will have to take a few days off and be at Coimbatore. We had tried to get it registered immediately after ...

Cinema

Hitchcock festival
Sony Pix is celebrating the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, all through November with a Hitchcock classic each Thursday night.

Hitchcock, possibly the finest in his genre of filmmaking is best known for his artful use of suspense ...

Gender

Walk on the dark side
With so many women working odd hours why isn’t society safe for them, asks GEETA PADMANABHAN

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