Mother of all battles

.....“On the face of it, the suggestions of the Planning Commission are not only sensible, they are overdue,” says author Githa Hariharan who took her fight for her right to be the “natural guardian” of her minor son to the Supreme Court in the 1990s. When she applied to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a 9 per cent relief bond to be held in her minor son’s name along with an intimation that she was the “natural guardian” of her son for investment purposes, the RBI returned the application asking for the father’s signature. ......

Mother of all battles