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.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court recently ruled that a woman who was sexually assaulted 'invited trouble' by drinking alcohol with the accused.
Although Pakistan extended an invitation to its neighbour, Afghanistan declined to participate, reinforcing the ongoing tensions between the two countries.
A conversation around men’s loneliness would require real work and courage. It’s much easier for Indian men to vilify women than to build genuine networks of support.
A 2-judge Supreme Court bench noted that larger benches have differently interpreted Section 14 of 1956 Hindu Succession Act while emphasising the need for settling the question of law.
Revised forensic medicine curriculum had reinstated topics like classifying sodomy & lesbianism as 'unnatural sexual offences', and definition of virginity, defloration removed in 2022.
Critics say bill will enshrine sectarianism in relationships, give power to clerics, and push Iraq toward religious patriarchy. A blow to women, children's rights, say rights groups.
Each of the stories in Anisha Motwani and Priyadarshini Narendra’s ‘She Storms The Norms’ shows the systemic, structural, and societal struggles faced by women.
Gupta is one of 11 women lawyers designated senior advocates by SC earlier this year. Losing her father at an early age was a defining factor in the kind of lawyer has become.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
A very true description of the predicament of Muslim women, and how as in any patriarchal socio-economic and familial structure, Muslim women face the greatest opposition from their own society. As in most religions, in Islam too it’s the privilege of the clergy, most of them specially in rural areas, hardly educated, except in rot learning the Quran, impose their interpretation on women.
For this Muslim women may conduct their Quran study groups without any clergy, as many Muslim Women presently must be able to do so, with some education and exposure. They may highlight those parts in the Quran that speak about women’s equality and rights . Actually they may use such an opportunity to compare those verses with the provisions in the Indian Constitution that is supportive of such equality and rights. Well actually most religions do have progressive texts and interpretation of religious texts and those need to be espoused as one important strategy for women’s empowerment and rights. Thanks Zakia, Thanks Banu for holding up the mirror to those who want to not see.
A very true description of the predicament of Muslim women, and how as in any patriarchal socio-economic and familial structure, Muslim women face the greatest opposition from their own society. As in most religions, in Islam too it’s the privilege of the clergy, most of them specially in rural areas, hardly educated, except in rot learning the Quran, impose their interpretation on women.
For this Muslim women may conduct their Quran study groups without any clergy, as many Muslim Women presently must be able to do so, with some education and exposure. They may highlight those parts in the Quran that speak about women’s equality and rights . Actually they may use such an opportunity to compare those verses with the provisions in the Indian Constitution that is supportive of such equality and rights. Well actually most religions do have progressive texts and interpretation of religious texts and those need to be espoused as one important strategy for women’s empowerment and rights. Thanks Zakia, Thanks Banu for holding up the mirror to those who want to not see.
Liberal are just Islamist now
Liberals are afraid of the educated Muslim woman asking for her rights. She is strong enough to undo their politics of appeasement.