The middle layer of this apparatus not only confines the UCC debate to Muslims but also produces a new binary between religious rights and social justice.
What Indians newspapers don’t do is chase after ‘Musalmaan’ like India TV news. And the stories can be anything as long as Muslims are involved and can be named.
Ten years after the 2013 UP riots, a court convicted two men of gangraping a Muslim woman fleeing with her 3-month-old child. But for many families, life is stuck between ‘before riots’ and ‘after riots’.
In a secular democracy, with a progressive Constitution, we shouldn’t fear the clergy. But they still wield power over the minds of significant sections of Indian Muslims.
The BJP in Telangana is confident the triple talaq ban has reduced cases of injustice and torture against women but the reality on ground isn’t that simple.
Nirmala Sitharaman may have been correct in saying Muslims are not the target of violence in India; but on television news, they are frequently associated with violence.
Almost every area needs reform to bring these laws up to date with the contemporary realities. It has to begin with recognising the Muslim woman as a whole individual.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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