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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicHindu Code Bill

Topic: Hindu Code Bill

One of 15 women in India’s Constituent Assembly, Kamala Chaudhri defended the Hindu Code Bill

Angellica Aribam -
In 'The Fifteen', Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali document the extraordinary lives of the women who helped shape the Constitution of India.

Nehru’s Hindu Code Bill vs Modi’s UCC— same script, same drama, different Indias

+TFP Vandana Menon -
Nehru was trying to build a great nation, in which all citizens had equal rights, but Parliament was holding him back.

Reform Muslim Personal Law now. It’s communal, sectarian, and anti-Islam

Ibn Khaldun Bharati -
The diverging paths of legislative interventions in Muslim and Hindu personal laws is a result of the damaging effect that Muslim Personal Law symbolises in Indian politics.

India’s liberals must decide: Oppose UCC because of BJP or uphold secular principles?

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
My fear is that secular liberals, disgusted by the Hindu triumphalism that will probably accompany the Uniform Civil Code, will forget their secularism and oppose the move.

Seeing Ambedkar as Dalit icon is narrow. Understand his feminist vision for Indian women

K. Kalyani -
The Manusmriti said 'women have no right to education'. Ambedkar's fight for their education and property rights shows why he wasn't just a Dalit icon.

Inter-caste marriage isn’t the problem, marrying a Dalit man is

Siddharth -
An Indian Hindu male cannot bring himself to accept the fact that an adult woman has the liberty to love and marry as per her free will.

Can you be a true democracy & let go of caste, Ambedkar asked Indians. We are yet to reply

Vineeth Krishna -
Ambedkar was optimistic about constitutional democracy working in India. However, by 1953, he had lost hope.

On Camera

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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