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SC’s Waqf order: A delicate balancing

SC’s Waqf order: A delicate balancing

The order has provided relief to petitioners and upheld the law. While it has calmed passions for now it has not fully doused the possibility of...

26.09.2025 9

hindustantimes

Zakia Soman

Liberals don’t want Muslim women to demand rights in the Hindutva era. There’s no right time

As Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’ shows, Muslim women seeking justice are neither a figment of imagination, nor a part...

08.07.2025 10

ThePrint

Zakia Soman

Forget UCC, amending the Special Marriage Act can do more for gender justice

Everyone needs to understand that a sort of UCC already exists in the form of the Special Marriage Act, 1954.

02.04.2025 4

ThePrint

Zakia Soman

Time for waqf reform, with trust-building first

If the spirit of genuine welfare and well-being as demonstrated by the Sachar committee is imbibed by JPC and enacted into the draft with genuine...

29.08.2024 2

hindustantimes

Zakia Soman