Talaq-e-hasan is often described as the “preferable” method because it stretches the process for three months, but it is not fair. It remains a one-sided, extrajudicial mechanism in India.
In 'Missing from the House', Rasheed Kidwai and Ambar Kumar Ghosh tell the stories of the 18 Indian Muslim women who have made it to the Lok Sabha since 1952.
As Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’ shows, Muslim women seeking justice are neither a figment of imagination, nor a part of some political conspiracy.
Allah has permitted women to go everywhere, so why not the mosque,’ said 51-year-old Ameena Bano at the women’s section of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Markaz.
Through his debut short film 'Riha (Unlocked)', Arastu Zakia pays tribute to his mother Zakia Soman and her personal journey of escaping an abusive marriage.
Time has changed. The nation's leadership can’t be browbeaten in the manner it was done in 1985-86; old Muslim leadership has been discredited and is slowly disappearing.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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