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Madhavi Goradia Divan

Madhavi Goradia Divan

Articles by Madhavi Goradia Divan

Looking back at the feminist fabric of India’s Constitution

The presence of 15 founding mothers in the Constituent Assembly shaped a feminist vision, far ahead of its times (HT Archive)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 24:50 IST

Alimony ruling ends disparity, not diversity

Indian Muslim students wearing burqas leave Mahatma Gandhi Memorial college after they were denied entry into the campus in Udupi, Karnataka state, India, February. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Updated on Jul 21, 2024 18:46 IST

Privacy law extends to smartphone data

Are mobile (cell) phones entitled to a more elevated protection of privacy given their extraordinary status as reservoirs of private and personal information?

Updated on Oct 26, 2023 16:59 IST

On the correct age to marry, let women decide

Men must wait till 21 before they marry, but women may be married at 18, grounded in patriarchal notions that the man is the provider and, therefore, must be old enough to support a wife.

Updated on Feb 11, 2022 15:30 IST

Safeguarding free speech from threats is important |Opinion

The Nation’s elected leaders at work on the constitution which free India should have been appearing in the picture are BR Ambedkar, Sarat Chandra Bose, Vallabhbhai Patel, BG Kher, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and Frank Anthony

Updated on Nov 25, 2022 13:06 IST

SC judgment on Delhi: Defer the grandstanding

The Supreme Court concluded that the Lieutenant Governor (LG) is not a titular head, but rather, an ‘administrator’ as distinct from the Governor of a State. But in the hybrid constitutional scheme for the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, involving two executives, the Court held that the LG must act in accordance with the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers.

Updated on Jul 9, 2018 05:43 IST

The death penalty is a quick fix unlikely to deter monsters in our society

Students protest against the Kathua and Unnao rape cases in Delhi, April 16. We can take a few lessons from Kenya that has brought rapes down by teaching “positive masculinity” and self- defence in schools.

Updated on May 7, 2018 13:25 IST

Privacy: Many-splendoured right which needs to be at forefront of civil liberties

In the challenge to Aadhaar, the State strongly resisted reading into Article 21, the right to privacy -- the very right which ought to be at the forefront of all civil liberties.

Updated on Aug 26, 2017 10:50 IST

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