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Hair-Rising in Tehran

Deepika Saraswat

Iranians are striving for an ‘ordinary life’, not a ‘heaven’ that is forced from within or without

The Generation Slap

Madhavankutty Pillai

What makes an orthodoxy like Iran disband the morality police

We the People

Makarand R Paranjape

When democratic impulses defy authoritarianism in China and Iran

“Scientific” Law?

Swapan Dasgupta

It is all about the personal philosophies of individual judges

Out of the Veil in Iran

Deepika Saraswat

Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback

Essential Question

Madhavankutty Pillai

A Muslim hospitality sector icon makes a point in the hijab case that the Supreme Court is hearing

The Duality of the Hijab

Pallavi Aiyar

Indian liberals see it as choice but their Indonesian counterparts as coercion

A Court Gets It Right on Hijab

Siddharth Singh

The path requires judicial sagacity and eschewing of activism on the part of the courts

Her Body, Her Choice

Mehr Tarar

Where the hijab is not mandatory—and why

Hijab Row in India: Just Like Us

Beena Sarwar

From the dark years of Zia in Pakistan to the hijab row in India

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