
An Indian village has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones. The reason? Village elders fear that unmarried women will use mobile phones to arrange their own marriages behind their father’s backs. Yeah, I’m not kidding. Three words spring to mind here, and I can abbreviate them by just writing – WTF.
The Lank village council has decided that unmarried men can use mobile phones only under parental supervision, whilst unmarried women face a blanket ban on their use. Local womens’ rights groups have criticized the measure as backward and discriminatory, but the council has defended the move, saying that the arrangement of forbidden …

