Badlav Seva Samiti

  SEX EDUCATION We as humans come across a number of issues in our day to day lives, issues that have an impact on our life in various manners. But out of these issues there exist several issues that we know about but we still shy away from talking about them, these issues are considered a taboo in our s,ociety. One such issue is sex education, an issue that needs to be addressed and talked about but the society has always shied away from talking about it. When it comes to children it is always believed that conversations related to sex and sexuality are considered too adult. A study has proved that conversations about sex and sexuality are something considered outside of the conservative social fabric of the family and hence is something never talked about.    But why is sex education still considered a taboo in our society? “If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized ove...

  “The Caste System cannot be said to have grown as a means of maintaining purity of blood. As a matter of fact, Caste system came into being long after the different races of India had commingled in blood and culture…What racial affinity is there between the Brahmin of Punjab and the Brahmin of Madras?...What racial difference is there between the Brahmin of Madras and the Pariah of Madras?...I am convinced that the real remedy is inter-marriage. Fusion of blood can alone create the feeling of being kith and kin and unless this feeling of kinship, of being kindred, becomes paramount the separatist feeling – the feeling of being aliens – created by Caste will not vanish…” -          B.R. Ambedkar   Let’s begin by considering the definition of marriage. A marriage is a social event and it is also a religious occasion. It is an auspicious ceremony – a ceremony that is believed to legalise the sacred bond that two consenting partners (who m...