This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National ... north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows. They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding ...

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This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and endemic violence against women suggest a very different national identity. “India is schizophrenic about ...