Name: Perspectives around legal age for marriage
Uploaded: 2021-01-30T15:34:14+00:00
Duration: 1 h 46 min 14 s
Description: In the 15th Episode of Shastrartha, Pratyasha Rath, Padma Pillai and Kushal talk about the multiple perspectives around the legal age for marriage. A government-appointed panel is looking at the right

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In the 15th Episode of Shastrartha, Pratyasha Rath, Padma Pillai and Kushal talk about the multiple perspectives around the legal age for marriage. A government-appointed panel is looking at the right marriageable age for women in India, and they will be making a decision on the subject soon. As of now the legal age of marriage according to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 is 18 years for girls with no exceptions. For boys, the legal age of marriage is 21. With the government panel indicating that it intends to increase the age of marriage for girls we try to understand whether this decision is good or bad. As of now, the mean female marriage age in India is already above 21 years and about 35% are married before then.

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00:00 Intro
02:58 Pratyasha's take on this issue
23:16 Padma's take on the issue
45:58 Voting age and marriage
56:17 State interference
01:04:36 What does research show?
01:12:43 Religion and the Law
01:19:11 Age for the marriage
01:26:00 Left and Conservative agreement
01:30:47 Padma's Conclusion on the law
01:34:18 Pratyasha's Conclusion on the law
01:38:10 Closing Comments

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Link to the previous episode of Shastrartha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4xVwUO8TRo&t=6s