A distorted interpretation of the divorce law is being used to grant unilateral divorces to Indian Muslim men through bizarre means like WhatsApp messages and even newspaper ads. Countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey are among 21 other Islamic nations that have already banned triple talaq. So why the resistance to what should be an obvious recourse in India? Why is the All India Muslim Personal Law Board against reforming a 1,500-year-old law that unlike other personal laws, has failed to keep up with the times? Tahir Mahmood explains.
International Women’s Day is here. And the biggest gift that women can give to themselves today is to just take a day off. Women work all day, round the clock, 24 /7, at home and at work. So why not take just one day off? But can the Indian woman actually do that? We speak to a few women and find out
The 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Babita Phogat hit back at Javed Akhtar’s tweet on the row over DU student Gurmehar Kaur, calling Virender Sehwag and Yogeshwar Dutt being “hardly literate”.
The wrestler told The Quint that she thinks that Javed Akhtar is illiterate despite being an educated person.
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