Asma Jahangir’s real struggle began under General Zia-ul-Haq’s military government and its Islamisation process, the darkest period in Pakistan’s history.
Top court is hearing a plea to ban FGM or khatna that is prevalent among the Bohra community; activists say govt should not dilly-dally around the issue.
What started as a petition by a divorced Muslim woman, Shayara Bano, in the SC, has resulted in an adjourned Parliament, and acrimonious and tokenistic politics.
Party leaders dismiss Arun Jaitley’s charge of double standards, say Congress is demanding the same changes it asked for in the Lok Sabha.
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Rajya Sabha MP Husain Dalwai writes letter to Home minister Rajnath Singh, says plan to criminalise the practice of triple talaq is ‘extremely problematic’.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
In that capacious culture which the writer alludes to, the temples of Khajuraho and the underlying esoteric traditions were but a drop in that kaleidoscopic and vast civilization called Aryavarta. Important as they were, in no way could it be argued historically that what these monuments stood for is what animated society at large and informed social mores. To use it as a basis for argument does not advance truth.
What if our forebears were Victorian prudes, not the uninhibited sort we see in Konarak and the Kama Sutra … There is no need to seek validation for the present by turning to the glories of our mythical past. Our children are going up in a globalised world, even Haryana’s chhoris have little use for the diktats of the khaps.
Only If your party and communist parasite backed by your party let Indian learn about pre-Islamic India in School.
Didn’t read the article as don’t belong to Mr Shashi Tharoor’s niche club of admirers who love his twisted arguments and over-the-top intellectualism.
In that capacious culture which the writer alludes to, the temples of Khajuraho and the underlying esoteric traditions were but a drop in that kaleidoscopic and vast civilization called Aryavarta. Important as they were, in no way could it be argued historically that what these monuments stood for is what animated society at large and informed social mores. To use it as a basis for argument does not advance truth.
What if our forebears were Victorian prudes, not the uninhibited sort we see in Konarak and the Kama Sutra … There is no need to seek validation for the present by turning to the glories of our mythical past. Our children are going up in a globalised world, even Haryana’s chhoris have little use for the diktats of the khaps.
The ugly and the unwanted to whom no body cares and love are the real disrupter of Valentine day.