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Long Live the King

mahesh-bhatt - December 16, 2015

Don’t ask me why, but when I saw the image of Dilip Saab receiving the Padma Vibhushan award at the hands of Rajnath Singh,...

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From Kauser Bano’s Unborn Daughter

Anshu Malviya - March 1, 2012

Everything was all right, Amma! The tartness of the pickle you ate, your flavours of the earth, would often reach me… Filtering through your womb, the sun would find...

Communal Organisations

Modi and Mahabharata

RB Sreekumar - June 30, 2007

The term society envisages collective community living of human beings. The origin of society preceded the emergence of the state and its limbs of...

Freedom

Uniform Civil Code or Gender Justice?

teesta-setalvad - February 28, 1994

Caught between the Sangh Parivar which has communalised an essentially secular concern for a uniform civil code and the orthodox Muslim leadership resistent to any change, the women's movement and other secular-democratic forces seem to have been gripped by - an intellectual paralysis. Unless these organisations de-communalise the demand and shift the focus of the debate to gender justice - not just Muslim, but all personal laws in India are loaded against women - the uniform civil code issue may prove to be a lethal weapon

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