The Horrors of the Marital License to Rape

A 14-year-old child bride in Tangail's Basail upazila has died just at the "right time". I say right time because her death, coming as it did against the backdrop of the call for reforms in rape laws, shows exactly how dreadful our laws currently are—how dreadfully outdated, discriminatory, and futile. In the coming days, unless we have something even more horrific, I assume