Feminist jurisprudence and a Uniform Civil Code
Marriage, divorce, inheritance and other aspects of personal status are purely secular activities that should be synchronised with societal changes. . A Uniform Civil Code should be independent
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A Uniform Civil Code with the rules of just family law is to be framed. (File Photo)
The judgment of Justice Bradley of the US Supreme Court in Bradwell vs Illinois (1872) exemplifies the myth of patriarchal societies that women are the weaker vessel: “Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognised the wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and women. Man is, or should be, women’s protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.” The US Supreme Court rectified its stand in Reed vs Reed (1971). Yet, in jurisdictions like India, patriarchy is still r
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Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee passes away at 91 © Provided by Mid-Day
Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee passed away on Friday at the age of 91 after contracting the coronavirus. He had been receiving treatment at a private hospital in South Delhi.
Born in Mumbai in 1930, Soli started his career at the Bombay High Court in 1953. An expert of constitutional law, he fought the landmark Keshavananda Bharati, IR Coehlo, and SR Bommai cases, among others. He is remembered for having successfully represented, at no charge, many newspapers and magazines that had come in conflict with the censors during the Emergency in 1975. Known for his work on human rights, Sorabjee was appointed by the UN as a special rapporteur for Nigeria to report on the human rights conditions in the country in 1997. From 1998-2004, he also became the chairman of the UN sub-committee on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights.
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
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India must realise that a democracy cannot be reduced to only demanding praise from the rest of the world
The ongoing protests by farmers against the three hastily promulgated agriculture laws have drawn international attention, with the denial of democratic rights to them by the government’s construction of military-grade barriers and shutting down of the Internet at protest sites getting strong statements of support from numerous international celebrities. The official response of the Ministry of External Affairs was disproportionate to the provocation, but it was not merely the reaction of a thin-skinned government. The argument put forth by the government pushed a more fundamental premise: it warned the concerned global voices that these matters democracy and hu
Why Today s India Needs a Resurrected Swatantra Party
The farmers protests prove that the agrarian class and small industries need a liberal party transcending religious, regional and caste identities.
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Politics17/Jan/2021
The Swatantra Party was a rainbow-like phenomenon in Indian politics: bright and beautiful; yet short lived. It represented different socio-economic classes, and interests across both business and agriculture. It had an elitist complexion, yet had large numbers of peasantry in its ranks.
The party played a conspicuous role in Indian politics from 1959 to 1974. It posed an ideological alternative to the dominant Congress partyâs statism under the guise of a âsocialistic pattern of societyâ. The Swatantra Party floated the idea of Gandhian liberalism, against the Congressâs Nehruvian socialism. Its leaders stood for occupational politics
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