in-beed-blowing-the-whistle-on-child-marriages

Beed, Maharashtra

Feb 19, 2024

In Beed: blowing the whistle on child marriages

Ashok Tangde and Tatwasheel Kamble have been working together for over a decade to prevent child marriages in this district of Maharashtra where over 40 per cent of girls are married before the age of 18. Together, they have stopped thousands of such weddings from taking place

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Parth M.N.

Parth M.N. is a 2017 PARI Fellow and an independent journalist reporting for various news websites. He loves cricket and travelling.

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Sarbajaya Bhattacharya

Sarbajaya Bhattacharya is a Senior Assistant Editor at PARI. She is an experienced Bangla translator. Based in Kolkata, she is interested in the history of the city and travel literature.