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Click here, Daniel Lal of BBC reports on India's incest culture.
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Incest book's 'bitter' message
Experts say girls' low social status makes them vulnerable
By Jill McGivering in Delhi
A book being published on Thursday in India has provoked an unprecedented debate about the normally taboo subject of incest.
The book, Bitter Chocolate, by the Indian journalist, Pinki Virani says incest is widespread in Indian society.
Miss Virani, alleges that a minimum of 20% of all Indian children under the age of 16 are being regularly sexually abused, half of them in their homes.
She calls for greater awareness of the issue and more intervention by parents and other authority figures to protect children.
Personal experience
Miss Virani starts the book by talking about her own experiences of sexual abuse when she was a child and the failure of her parents to stop it.
The rest of the book is divided between real-life case studies and discussion of child sexual abuse - how and why it happens and how to counter it.
One section is written for adults who were victims of abuse as children and have never discussed it.
Girls at risk
Such open debate about incest is ground-breaking for India. Counsellors here say it's hard to judge how prevalent incest is in Indian society because the problem is only just starting to be acknowledged.
One counsellor says in her experience abuse often begins when children are about four years old and carries on until they become teenagers. Girls, she said, are much more at risk than boys.
The low social status of women in India can also make it difficult for girls who experience abuse to get protection.
Girls who complain about male relatives who are abusing them may not be supported by families who are anxious not to damage family relationships, nor to cause scandal.
This general secrecy also makes it difficult for developing counselling services to reach victims of abuse who might benefit from their support programmes.
Many, it seems, have reached adulthood without ever talking about the incest they experienced.
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Incest book's 'bitter' message
Experts say girls' low social status makes them vulnerable
By Jill McGivering in Delhi
A book being published on Thursday in India has provoked an unprecedented debate about the normally taboo subject of incest.
The book, Bitter Chocolate, by the Indian journalist, Pinki Virani says incest is widespread in Indian society.
Miss Virani, alleges that a minimum of 20% of all Indian children under the age of 16 are being regularly sexually abused, half of them in their homes.
She calls for greater awareness of the issue and more intervention by parents and other authority figures to protect children.
Personal experience
Miss Virani starts the book by talking about her own experiences of sexual abuse when she was a child and the failure of her parents to stop it.
The rest of the book is divided between real-life case studies and discussion of child sexual abuse - how and why it happens and how to counter it.
One section is written for adults who were victims of abuse as children and have never discussed it.
Girls at risk
Such open debate about incest is ground-breaking for India. Counsellors here say it's hard to judge how prevalent incest is in Indian society because the problem is only just starting to be acknowledged.
One counsellor says in her experience abuse often begins when children are about four years old and carries on until they become teenagers. Girls, she said, are much more at risk than boys.
The low social status of women in India can also make it difficult for girls who experience abuse to get protection.
Girls who complain about male relatives who are abusing them may not be supported by families who are anxious not to damage family relationships, nor to cause scandal.
This general secrecy also makes it difficult for developing counselling services to reach victims of abuse who might benefit from their support programmes.
Many, it seems, have reached adulthood without ever talking about the incest they experienced.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/835779.cms
Incest leads to 'death', brother jailed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2004 02:29:37 AM ]
PATNA: Pregnant with the child of her own brother, Sarita breathed her last a few days ago. Accused of incest with Sarita, Amarjeet was sent to jail on Wednesday. So was Amarjeet's another brother, Deepu. But the Patna police are yet to arrest Sarita's parents who too, along with everyone else of the family, appear to have conspired against the 17-year-old wronged girl leading to her mysterious death.
Sarita, daughter of a farmer of Mohiuddinpur, around 30 km from Patna, died on August 17. Before her death, she had sent an SOS to Bihar government's Helpline, accusing her brother, Amarjeet, of repeatedly raping her. While pleading that she be rescued, the distressed girl had also informed the Helpline that she was pregnant.
"...Ek to bhai awara nikala jo apni behen ko bhi nahin pehchanta aur tum halla karogi to humlog ki izzat chali jayegi; thora din aur bardasht karo; shaadi kar denge, sab thik ho jayega (the brother has already turned a delinquent who doesn't recognise his sister but if you make it public it will bring disgrace on the family; wait for some time and we will marry you off)," Sarita's letter quoted her mother as consoling her.
"Fact is, my father, mother and brothers have plotted to kill me now," Sarita wrote, fearing her letter, being sent through a friend, may reach the Helpline too late.
Tragically, Sarita's fears proved right. The letter could be dispatched by her friend only on August 27, ten days after Sarita had been allegedly killed. It reached its destination on August 28 and the Helpline's project manager Priyanka Gupta reached the village on August 30, the Raksha Bandhan day when sisters tie "rakhis" around the wrists of their brothers who in turn vow to protect them.
Ironically, Gupta found Sarita's "protector" had already proved her predator. "Her family members first told us Sarita was at her maternal uncle's place. Later, they admitted she has died. One said she died of diarrhoea. Another said she died after vomiting blood," Gupta recalled, adding she then informed the police.
Sarita's brother might not have inculcated family values. Sarita had. Her letter's last line read, "if you get this letter after my death, please do not harass my parents."
But the police won't heed Sarita. "We are looking for her parents who are absconding," Patna SP (rural) G P Sinha told TOI on Wednesday. The police have recovered a notebook of Sarita. "The handwriting in it prima facie tallies with that in Sarita's letter to Helpline," Sinha said, adding the police are waiting for a report from forensic science laboratory on it. The police are also trying to locate the person who posted Sarita's letter from the Fatuha post office.
"One thing is clear: That Sarita was murdered to save the family from the disgrace the teenager's tragic tale, if made public, would have brought on it," Helpline's Gupta said.
Incest leads to 'death', brother jailed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2004 02:29:37 AM ]
PATNA: Pregnant with the child of her own brother, Sarita breathed her last a few days ago. Accused of incest with Sarita, Amarjeet was sent to jail on Wednesday. So was Amarjeet's another brother, Deepu. But the Patna police are yet to arrest Sarita's parents who too, along with everyone else of the family, appear to have conspired against the 17-year-old wronged girl leading to her mysterious death.
Sarita, daughter of a farmer of Mohiuddinpur, around 30 km from Patna, died on August 17. Before her death, she had sent an SOS to Bihar government's Helpline, accusing her brother, Amarjeet, of repeatedly raping her. While pleading that she be rescued, the distressed girl had also informed the Helpline that she was pregnant.
"...Ek to bhai awara nikala jo apni behen ko bhi nahin pehchanta aur tum halla karogi to humlog ki izzat chali jayegi; thora din aur bardasht karo; shaadi kar denge, sab thik ho jayega (the brother has already turned a delinquent who doesn't recognise his sister but if you make it public it will bring disgrace on the family; wait for some time and we will marry you off)," Sarita's letter quoted her mother as consoling her.
"Fact is, my father, mother and brothers have plotted to kill me now," Sarita wrote, fearing her letter, being sent through a friend, may reach the Helpline too late.
Tragically, Sarita's fears proved right. The letter could be dispatched by her friend only on August 27, ten days after Sarita had been allegedly killed. It reached its destination on August 28 and the Helpline's project manager Priyanka Gupta reached the village on August 30, the Raksha Bandhan day when sisters tie "rakhis" around the wrists of their brothers who in turn vow to protect them.
Ironically, Gupta found Sarita's "protector" had already proved her predator. "Her family members first told us Sarita was at her maternal uncle's place. Later, they admitted she has died. One said she died of diarrhoea. Another said she died after vomiting blood," Gupta recalled, adding she then informed the police.
Sarita's brother might not have inculcated family values. Sarita had. Her letter's last line read, "if you get this letter after my death, please do not harass my parents."
But the police won't heed Sarita. "We are looking for her parents who are absconding," Patna SP (rural) G P Sinha told TOI on Wednesday. The police have recovered a notebook of Sarita. "The handwriting in it prima facie tallies with that in Sarita's letter to Helpline," Sinha said, adding the police are waiting for a report from forensic science laboratory on it. The police are also trying to locate the person who posted Sarita's letter from the Fatuha post office.
"One thing is clear: That Sarita was murdered to save the family from the disgrace the teenager's tragic tale, if made public, would have brought on it," Helpline's Gupta said.
Out of 1000 aborted fetus' in India, 999 were cancelled because they were girls, the 1 that wasn't was believed to be a girl but turned out to be a boy.
Very sad tale of sorrows that sweep our earth even today with all the education and technology what good is it if we cant help out our own human kind?
I dont care if India is our enemy, I still think this should be taken care of reguardless. It is sick and disturbing...
I dont care if India is our enemy, I still think this should be taken care of reguardless. It is sick and disturbing...
Why the Fcuk they gotta name a hindu women the name of a muslimah Aisha, Mother of the believers in islam. How about sati, saraswati etc., dumb kufar..
Thats sick man, a wopping 3 quarters i.e. 75% of indian women suffer from fornication 
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Thats sick man, a wopping 3 quarters i.e. 75% of indian women suffer from fornication
whats fornication brother?
Fornication is actually consentual pre-marital sex.The correct words applicable here would be /are "incest &/or rape".
This really grosses me out, and makes me mad and to boot they taunt us about cousin marriges.
This really grosses me out, and makes me mad and to boot they taunt us about cousin marriges.
how ironic that non of the indian even tried to explain, refute or even condemn it. 
people like Rudraksh, MKI, usramajor and other bhangees are too busy publishing propagnda and feeling sad about muslim rulers attrocities against hindus, yet there was non. but the same group of people forget that how hindus commiting these horrible acts against thier own kind. yet it wont be consider evil, bad or curality against people, because it hindu VS hindu and its all fair even if they can justify the theories of cast and race system.
Admiting the mistake and condemning it is a virtue and a sign of greatness.
but this is not one of the traits of hindus. they will only admit good things about them.
now i have put them on front and force them, they might be forced to reply and even condemn.
see you always have to force these hindus to do something good.
they are too reluctant to do anything good.
people like Rudraksh, MKI, usramajor and other bhangees are too busy publishing propagnda and feeling sad about muslim rulers attrocities against hindus, yet there was non. but the same group of people forget that how hindus commiting these horrible acts against thier own kind. yet it wont be consider evil, bad or curality against people, because it hindu VS hindu and its all fair even if they can justify the theories of cast and race system.
Admiting the mistake and condemning it is a virtue and a sign of greatness.
but this is not one of the traits of hindus. they will only admit good things about them.
now i have put them on front and force them, they might be forced to reply and even condemn.
see you always have to force these hindus to do something good.
they are too reluctant to do anything good.
There are also cases when baby girls are murdered and their corpses thrown in the ganga river, thats also sick.
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