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  2. Salwa Judum - Wikipedia

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    Salwa Judum (meaning "peace march" in the Gondi language) was a militia that was mobilised and deployed as part of counterinsurgency operations in Chhattisgarh, India, aimed at countering Naxalite activities in the region. The militia, consisting of local tribal youth, received support and training from the Chhattisgarh state government.

  3. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the context. [1] Hindustani profanities often contain references to incest and notions of honor. [2] Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending ...

  4. Manichitrathazhu - Wikipedia

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    During a Kathakali dance performance attended by the family, Ganga suddenly disappears. Sunny finds her being harassed by Alli’s fiancé, Mahadevan, though Mahadevan insists he is innocent. After the confusion settles down, Sunny reveals to Mahadevan and Nakulan that all the problems in the house are being orchestrated by Ganga.

  5. Vena (Hindu king) - Wikipedia

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    The Padma Purana states that Sunitha, Vena's mother, was a cruel woman, who enjoyed hurting other people. Once, when she went to the forest to play with her maids, she saw a gandharva named Suśaṅkha. The handsome youth was engaged in a penance to propitiate the goddess of music, Saraswati. Sunitha started to annoy him, but Suśaṅkha ...

  6. Dowry system in India - Wikipedia

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    State of Bihar & Anr., [81] a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court reviewed the enforcement of section 41(1)(A) of CrPC which instructs state of following certain procedure before arrest, and went on to observe that the 498A had become a powerful weapon in the hands of disgruntled wives where innocent people were arrested without any evidence ...

  7. Book excerpt: "Framed" by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey - AOL

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    These convictions were not caused by unintentional mistakes by local law enforcement or misidentification by well-meaning eyewitnesses or honest but erroneous forensic analysis.

  8. Hindus - Wikipedia

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    The term 'Hindu' meant people who were non-Muslims, and it included Buddhists of the region. [107] In the 11th-century text of Al Biruni, Hindus are referred to as "religious antagonists" to Islam, as those who believe in rebirth, presents them to hold a diversity of beliefs, and seems to oscillate between Hindus holding a centralist and ...

  9. Virginity - Wikipedia

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    Youth by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.White has traditionally been associated with ritual purity, innocence and virginity in Western cultures. Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse; [1] [2] it is considered a social construct, not an objective term with an operational definition. [3]