India, Aug. 18 -- While being 'happily married' is a concept we are familiar with, no one really talks about marital rape. Isn't that an important aspect of marriage too?

Marriage is a very big deal in India. It has occupied such a large space in our psyche that we spend more than half of our waking life either thinking or talking about it?.

But one thing that either escapes everyone's psyche or the one thing that not many people want to talk about is 'marital rape'.

There are people from thejudiciary, politics and the rest of our society who actually believe that criminalising marital rape will 'destabilise the institution of marriage'. It would be fair to ask if we really need an institution like this that does nothing to prevent the...