TopicMosques

Topic: mosques

Muslim women enjoyed greater freedom during Delhi Sultanate and Mughal rule than now

Ziya Us Salam - 26 October, 2019

Many royal women were known to have built imperial mosques; many mosques, from Delhi to Bengal, had sections reserved for women to come and pray.

In echo of Sabarimala dissent, SC junks plea seeking entry of Muslim women in mosques

Apoorva Mandhani - 8 July, 2019

Supreme Court’s emphasis on the ‘standing’ of petitioner Hindu Mahasabha is reminiscent of Justice Indu Malhotra’s dissent in Sabarimala judgment.

Indian liberals want to support everything Muslim, but that’s not the way to equal rights

Taslima Nasreen - 1 May, 2019

Equal rights for Muslim or Hindu women cannot be earned from within the ambit of religion, it requires one to move out of the structure of organised religion.

SC invokes Sabarimala in plea seeking entry of women into mosques

Ritika Jain - 16 April, 2019

SC issues notices to minority affairs ministry, Muslim law board and NCW on a petition filed by a Muslim couple challenging ban on entry of women in mosques.

Muslim couple moves Supreme Court seeking entry of women in mosques

Ritika Jain - 15 April, 2019

The Pune-based couple said there is nothing in the Quran that opposes women entering mosques and offering prayers.

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India has 71 towns, cities under Police Commissionerate. It just creates hierarchy

Sanjeev Chopra - 5 July, 2022

There is a need to re-examine not just the 1861 Police Act, but also the colonial practice of four-stage recruitment and the non-involvement of city governments in law and order.