Why BJP is pushing it
Oppenheimer was an event, much like a FIFA World Cup or the Olympics, which cuts across cultures and classes. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, with its close identification with American girlhood in a pink paradise, did not have the same resonance in India, where the Mattel doll has never been too popular
Congress and other anti-BJP parties are more interested in optics over Manipur than a substantial discussion
Unlike Belgium or France, Britain still refuses to repatriate its colonial loot
A Uniform Civil Code is not merely a legislative matter
The Uniform Civil Code will have a liberating effect on the Muslim community. Only the clerics need to fear
Defenders of the idea of a Uniform Civil Code had hoped it would become a reality but the divisions seen in the Constituent Assembly took a turn for the worse in subsequent decades
A lack of political will to undo a colonial legacy has been the biggest obstacle