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CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF IMMORALITY

  If we study deeply about the concept of obscenity we will find that the object of law of obscenity to restrain the people from not to do indecent behavior or we can say that not to do immoral acts. (Here an immoral act means the act which is indecent and not accepted by society) . To judge what is moral and immoral it is very difficult because opinion of society differs on moral and immoral acts. Where there is no precise definition of the obscenity, that should be defined in limits otherwise it will affect the liberties [1] including privacy of other persons. 1890, American lawyers Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis wrote a seminal piece on the Right to Privacy as a tort action describing privacy as the Right to be Let Alone , meaning thereby zero relationship between two or more persons in the sense that there is no interaction or communication between them, if they choose. There are so many social sins which are recognised as a crime on the basis of public immorality and obsc...

Present status of Women in India

  Women were always treated inferior to Men. India has always been a patriarchal society; here the lineage of a descendant is always inferred from the Father’s side. Male dominance has been almost everywhere in the society. The status of woman in India has been subjected to several changes overtime. We can trace from superiority of men in every phase of our life. When we are born, we have our fathers to decide and look after us, during our teenage years, the responsibilities of our father were shared by the brothers who had to take the whole responsibility of the family after the father, then once we get married we have our life partners to decide everything for us in our married lives, lastly our sons are there in our old age days to look after us and decide for us. To a very large extent, lives of the women of our country has always been decided and controlled by the men who are present in their lives. The women were just relegated to the household work, and made to submit to the...

Conflict of Kashmiri Pandit with their Identity-A sensitive Issue

When we meet to anyone we generally asked “What is your name?” and “Where are you from?” Asking this, “we do not imply anything else and we simply want to know which place the other person belongs to”. It is simple to tell for us however it isn’t so easy for certain communities who are no longer associate themselves with their own land. More confusion is faced by the people who have been departed from their homeland for a long time. There is no question of just the land or the houses they leave behind, but main concern is with the culture, the distinctive practices and the identity that they leave behind when they sever ties with their native place. Presently we have such community which have searching its lost identity and become refugee in its homeland. Unfortunately, this kind of people may go anywhere in the world but coming back to their home remains a dream for such people. “They can ‘visit’ their homeland but cannot settle there again as they are the victims of the government...

STATUS OF SUFISM IN ISLAM

  Many misconceptions are when we talk about Islamic Sufism . Many of the people have wrong belief that it is some inherent knowledge which is transferred from generation to generation, and are equal to the recognized laws of the   shariat   which is Islamic law. In a research paper, it is stated that “they hold that it was originally secretly taught by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph, and then passed on through him to the rest of the Muslim community…Hazrat Ali's name is most often associated with sufism because the leading sufis in many of the sufi orders trace their genealogy to Hazrat Ali…However, it is incorrect to ascribe the origin of Islamic Sufism to Hazrat Ali solely on this ground because the genealogy of sufis from some other orders leads to Hazrat Abu Bakr, the first Caliph.” [1]      Sufism is a based on religious philosophy of Islam. It is described in the oldest extant definition as ...