talaq

The Road to 2019

PR Ramesh

From the election of Ram Nath Kovind as the next President to the unravelling in Bihar to the impending Supreme Court verdict on triple talaq, Modi sets the terms for the big battle even as the Congress sinks deeper into irrelevance

Ode to Triple Talaq

Madhavankutty Pillai

Is it the end of a medieval practice?

Female Qazis: Raising the Bar

Lhendup G Bhutia

India’s pioneering female qazis are pushing for a gender-neutral interpretation of Muslim law

‘A ban on triple talaq isn’t enough. We need tough laws to punish violators’: Arif Mohammad Khan

Ullekh NP

Arif Mohammad Khan speaks to Executive Editor Ullekh NP on a range of issues, including the ongoing tussle over triple talaq, polygamy, Muslim insecurity and Constitutional propriety. Excerpts:

Triple Talaq: God’s Diktat

Siddharth Singh

The legal challenge thrown by Muslim women opposing triple talaq invites the fury of Islamic clerics, writes Siddharth Singh from Deoband

The Triple Talaq Blowback

Tufail Ahmad

Obscurantist clerics mount a campaign against recent moves to reform the Muslim Personal Law

Shayara Bano: The Lady Who Dared

Nandini Nair

Muslim countries don’t support it, neither should India, says the petitioner fighting to put an end to triple talaq. Could Shayara Bano be the woman who challenged the misogyny after Shah Bano?

Trapped by Triple Talaq

Madhavankutty Pillai

A survey reveals that a huge majority of Muslim women in India want to see the end of the unilateral oral divorce and other such injustices of the religion’s personal laws