| When looking for a divorce in India it used to be | | | | resulted in many gross injustices committed against |
| impossible to not get a piercing, condescending glare. | | | | Indian women. From the traditions of dowry and |
| That is changing now. A brief understanding of how | | | | satti, they have been abused and made to subject |
| Indians perceive this word and phenomenon is | | | | themselves to unbearable post-marital conditions for |
| necessary. | | | | what was branded as the "welfare of the family". |
| It is the legal separation of two spouses who wish to | | | | Even to this day, they are at times forced to sit at |
| bring an end to their vows (known as pheras), for all | | | | home and manage the household. |
| effects and purposes. The procedure to get a | | | | But some of that is changing with time and a |
| divorce in India is quite unlike that exercised in | | | | widening mindset. As we see advancements in the |
| western countries like the Unites States and Sweden. | | | | fields of development, education and human rights, it |
| There is only one set of laws that are implemented | | | | is the metros and urban regions that seem to be just |
| and followed national wide by all tiers of courts. | | | | beginning to understand the need for Indians to |
| In earlier days, regardless of whether there existed a | | | | adopt divorcees as a part of society. Urban Indian |
| radical divide between spouses, it was expected (by | | | | couples facing problems now do not think about the |
| elders and society) alike that they would resolve the | | | | societal consequences, rather they move ahead and |
| matter amicably. | | | | begin filing for divorce. It will take time, but the |
| Since India continues to be a largely male-dominated | | | | country is steadily understanding the place of women |
| society, it still is always the women who happened to | | | | and the importance of provisions like divorce in the |
| be the ones making comprises. This has in the past | | | | legal system of India. |