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You Are Deciding Whether to Protect Her or Trust Her

The piece surfaces a recurring ethical tension in Indian public life: whether the state and society extend adult women full standing as rights-bearing citizens or default to a parens patriae logic that treats their choices and expression as requiring correction. It is directly relevant to GS4 ethics of governance and constitutional morality and to GS2 fundamental rights under Article 19, especially given its live connection…