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Tarar Square | 7-minute read
Triple talaq is more in practice today in melodramatic soap operas in Pakistan. It is a legally punishable offence and its ugliest fall-out, halala, finds no favour in the holy Quran.
Salman Khurshid’s 'Visible Muslim, Invisible Citizen: Understanding Islam in Indian Democracy' (Rupa) gives the view of a political insider into current heated debates around Islam and Muslims in India.
If the government is seriously concerned about women impacted by polygamy, it should look at the high statistics of Hindu men doing the same. Instead, it is selectively targeting Muslims.
It’s not as if movies have lost their edge as agents of conditioning, but what has changed is how the average audience refuses to drink the Kool-Aid of yore with the same enthusiasm.
Arif Mohammed Khan, former Union Minister in Rajiv Gandhi's govt, who famously resigned at the overturning of the Shah Bano judgment, spoke with Rohit E David about the triple talak law, Narendra Modi and 'secular' vs 'communal' parties.
Just like Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress remain committed to the medieval joy of triple talaq for Muslim men. It is the women they were never committed to. They've proved that yet again.
Are we carrying a social hangover of judging people into the new year? A hangover that will override the ground-breaking legal judgements we saw last year?
The claim that this emanates from the Supreme Court judgment of August 2017 is fallacious. The majority in the Supreme Court never demanded legislation.
Religion belongs to your home, not the public space.
If women can fly fighter jets, surely they can be allowed the same access to places of worship as men, or even become priests.
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