Muslim Women are India’s Neo-Untouchable Caste – The Case for Uniform Civil Code
Over the past year, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (the Assembly of Indian Islamic Scholars) – a family-owned religious organisation whose leaders are not elected by Muslims – has been organising events across India More...
Islamic Leaders Seek Dalit Support to Undermine UCC
“Yeksan civil code thopa gaya to mulk mein takrao ke halaat paida ho jayen gein” – if the uniform civil code is imposed, situations of confrontation will emerge in the country. This is a banner headline More...
Book Review: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob De Roover
Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (Religion and Democracy), Jakob De Roover, 296 Pages, Oxford University Press (14 September 2015). Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation More...
Statement on the Draft Uniform Civil Code for the Indian Citizen
Editor’s note: Here is the statement released by Tufail Ahmad, renowned journalist and political commentator on the Draft Uniform Civil Code/Universal Bill of Rights for the Indian Citizen jointly prepared by More...
Secularism and Uniform Civil Code
India is probably the only country, wherein the concept of secularism is most perverted, both in principle and practice. After Independence, India, first borrowed this alien principle, without giving a thought regarding More...
Towards a New Cosmopolitan Muslim Mindset
During one of my recent summer trips to India, an incident in the Mewat region of Haryana reported in a local newspaper caught my attention. A road accident had escalated into a communal riot between Muslims and More...
Uniform Civil Code must be implemented urgently
With the recent Supreme Court Judgement that Fatwas are not legally binding, the question of a uniform civil code is again being debated.Recently, the Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju said More...