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11 Mar 2020
Stiff Hindu rightwing resistance to the codification of Hindu personal law had led India’s first law minister, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar to resign. In 1955-56 the exercise was pushed through by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. But how far has Hindu law really gone towards a more just framework for women?
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11 Mar 2020
Stiff Hindu rightwing resistance to the codification of Hindu personal law had led India’s first law minister, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar to resign. In 1955-56 the exercise was pushed through by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. But how far has Hindu law really gone towards a more just framework for women?
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Communalism
Malappuram is not in the Wild West, Madam Maneka Gandhi: Open Letter
This scathing open letter on face book exposes not just the ill-informed rants of the former minister and BJP Member of Parliament (MP) from Sultanpur, Maneka Gandhi but challenges her and her party to please enact a law not to use elephants (or cranes) in public gatherings, festivals and processions, which the writer says will get all Kerala’s support
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