[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court which is already examining petitions challenging the practice of talaq-e-hasan, Friday sought the Centre’s view on a new PIL seeking a ban on polygamy among Muslims and securing the rights of women, aggrieved by marriage of Muslim husbands during subsistence of first marriage, over the matrimonial home and maintenance.A bench … Read more
[ad_1] Fatima listens to old speeches of the student-activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam before going to the gym these days. “They are like my pre-workout supplements,” the 28-year-old working for a media organisation in Delhi said jokingly. Both Khalid and Imam had risen to prominence during the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act … Read more
[ad_1] A Muslim domestic worker struggling to find employment in Delhi laments forlornly, “I am uneducated and it is very difficult for me to get a job. The only one I can get is of a domestic help, and even that is not happening because of my religion. I want to be known by my … Read more
[ad_1] The frontier state of Assam – incidentally the land of my birth – is today seething with animosity, fear and resentment. It is tearing apart. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has done all he can to weaponise the legitimate anxieties of the Assamese people concerning indigeneity and land, to manufacture and stoke hatred … Read more
[ad_1] In 1981, 60-year-old Tayub Ali’s family moved from Morigaon to a region on Assam’s border with Nagaland. “As there was no land in Morigaon and no way to earn a living, we came to Uriamghat,” he said. Both Assam and Nagaland claimed this region on the banks of the Regma river as their land. … Read more
[ad_1] “Twenty-five years ago, the Brahmaputra took away our home,” said 38-year-old Safiur Rahman Mondol. “Now, the government has bulldozed it.” Over two decades ago, Mondol’s home on a char, the temporary sandbar islands of Assam which are regularly swallowed by the Brahmaputra, was washed away. The family landed up 10 km away at Churuabakra … Read more