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SC’s Waqf order: A delicate balancing

Several mosques and shrines, all deemed as waqf, have existed for centuries without any documents or registration. (PTI)

Published on Sept 25, 2025 09:20 pm IST

Time for waqf reform, with trust-building first

Under the new draft law, several ancient monuments, such as the Jama Masjid, qualify as waqf properties and may now be required to be registered on the portal within six months. But what documents would a 400-year-old mosque have to prove itself as a waqf property? (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) (PTI)

Updated on Aug 29, 2024 08:51 pm IST

A code fair to all faiths and genders is more important than UCC

Supreme Court (SC) has weighed in on UCC on several occasions in the past

Published on Jul 02, 2023 08:38 pm IST

Look beyond UCC for a secular common law

What should the UCC for a country as diverse and plural as India look like? What should be its broad contours where affirmative practices (if any) of different communities are upheld and religious freedoms protected simultaneously (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 04, 2023 09:15 am IST

In the hijab row, let education not suffer

The hijabi girls have not refused to wear the uniform. They want to wear the hijab over and above the uniform. An educational institution can frame its uniform policy. But equally, it cannot demand rigid insistence on uniformity, devoid of social circumstance (PTI)

Updated on Oct 17, 2022 08:21 pm IST

Muslim personal law needs to be rehauled

The conservative ulemas have always been against reforms and raise the bogey of “Islam in danger” whenever gender justice is demanded. (AP)

Updated on Aug 31, 2022 09:02 pm IST

Act against the virus of religious polarisation

The sad reality is that no single individual can be blamed for the social crisis that has engulfed our Republic. Sharma’s remarks were merely a trigger. (HT/Representative Image)

Published on Jul 05, 2022 08:26 pm IST

Divisive politics and its effect on minorities

India’s democracy is an amalgam of secularism and religious freedom. We have lived peacefully even as the practice of secularism remained flawed. But this seems to be changing as we are being divided into rigid identities. (PTI)

Published on Feb 13, 2022 06:17 pm IST

The rise of the new Indian Muslim woman| Analysis

Muslim women are proudly saying that we are Indians and we are Muslims(Samir Jana / Hindustan Times)

Published on Jan 23, 2020 06:53 pm IST

On gender, the Supreme Court should lead. Society will follow

Women from diverse faiths look up to the courts to be able to freely exercise their rights. This demand for change is led by women who are religious(Kunal Patil / Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 20, 2019 07:17 pm IST

Triple talaq law: A historic moment for social justice

Women celebrate the passing of the triple talaq bill. The law is not to punish the man, but ensure fair play to the victim woman(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

Published on Jul 31, 2019 08:05 pm IST

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