[Assam] From TOI

[umesh sharma]

I am sure the child marriage participants in India can surely beat this record. Mahatma Gandhi got married at age 13 with his 13 yearold bride. One of my paternal uncles had got married when he was 12. Now he is 82.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/18/stories/2009011855981100.htm
40% of world's child marriages in India

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/13/world/main695062.shtml
7 yearolds get married!! sometimes allegedly with blessings of state ministers 


Umesh Sharma



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--- On Fri, 13/2/09, Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Assam] From TOI
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Friday, 13 February, 2009, 1:56 PM

Wonder if Boyle is going to make his next Oscar  film on this  :) 
 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/British-boy-a-father-at-13-Report/articleshow/4126888.cms
 
 


      
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