-The Tribune The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has, in a recent meeting, decided on a code of conduct for divorce. In a major climbdown, it has conceded ground and resolved in favour of "one divorce." Therefore, instant triple divorce will no more be an option with a Muslim male. GOING by the discussions on television channels it seems all Muslim women are getting instant triple divorce. But then facts are...
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India's polity has shifted from hope to fear, and PM Modi knows it -Aman Sethi
-Hindustan Times The animating impulse of Indian politics, pundits of all stripes insist, is youthful aspiration: fearless young people throwing off the shackles of caste and class to Whatsapp their way to what the Prime Minister likes to call “vikas”. Parties like the Bharatiya Janta Party understand this, the argument goes, and are handsomely rewarded; the opposition doesn’t, and is doomed to failure. But a recent CSDS-KAS survey paints a rather different picture:...
More »Testing times for Yogi govt as saffron outfits run riot in UP -Pawan Dixit
-Hindustan Times Violence involving right wing Hindu organisations from various parts of Uttar Pradesh is proving to be an embarrassment for the Yogi Adityanath government. The volatile situation even forced chief minister Yogi Adityanath to send a clear message of ‘zero tolerance’ on law and order front. The Saharanpur violence on Friday was latest in the series of incidents that have rocked the state after the BJP formed the government in U.P. Led by...
More »Census puts Muslim divorce rate at just 0.56%
-NationalHeraldIndia.com The divorce rate among Muslims in the 2011 Census is lower than among Hindus. And while there is no survey on cases of ‘triple talaq’, the incidence could be as low as 1% of the total While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, TV channels and the Supreme Court are all concerned over the ‘regressive’ practice of triple talaq, here are 10 facts that put the issue in perspective. *...
More »Young India Is Conservative: Opposed To Homosexuality, Likes To Marry Within Their Caste, Wants A Government Job -Rukmini S
-Huffington Post A majority believed that religion (47%) should take precedence over science (33%). Socially conservative, religiously inclined, worried about jobs - a new nationally representative sample survey of India's youth paints a sobering profile of what young people think and want. Ten years after their first such survey, the Delhi-based Centre for the Study in Developing Societies (CSDS) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), a German foundation associated with a political party,...
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