Articles by: Mubashir VP

Muslim Women and Personal Law in India: Debates and Struggles

Muslim Women and Personal Law in India: Debates and Struggles

There are three things that should be noted in the debates related to Muslim personal laws. First, the diversity of Muslim women’s living conditions. Two, the characteristics of Islam. Third, the constitution and laws of the countries where Muslims live. By integrating and considering these three things, we need to devise political programs that provide justice and equal opportunities for[Read More…]

by 28/04/2023 Comments are Disabled India
BJP holds on to Gujarat fort; Congress groping in darkness; AAP rises to national challenge

BJP holds on to Gujarat fort; Congress groping in darkness; AAP rises to national challenge

The result of Gujarat election was a foregone conclusion with pundits contesting on the sweeping margins of BJP’s win. Unlike last time, Congress was missing from the field, giving space for AAP to make inroads and BJP to split the disgruntled voters. With more than 50 percentage of votes, BJP has secured seventh straight streak of victory. The unexpected debacle[Read More…]

by 08/12/2022 Comments are Disabled India
Those ‘perpetrators’ do not embody Muslim community

Those ‘perpetrators’ do not embody Muslim community

Brazen call for financial embargo against Muslims, by BJP MP Parvesh Verma, demonstrates new churn in communalism in India. He was speaking at a protest march conducted by VHP and other right-wing organizations against the murder of Manish Kumar, who was killed by three men with ‘Muslim names’ in Sundar Nagri locality earlier this month. According to police reports Manish[Read More…]

by 20/10/2022 Comments are Disabled India
Islamophobia and the Christian community in Kerala

Islamophobia and the Christian community in Kerala

Although there are many threads of kinship, those who study history can understand that there have been conflicts between Islam and Christianity since the beginning. Although it can be attributed to the Semitic tradition and the exact assimilation of the modern structure, it can undoubtedly be said that imperial political interests were behind it. But on the other hand, the role of[Read More…]

by 22/07/2022 Comments are Disabled India
Backward ClassReservation after Supreme Court judgement on Maratha case: who is to gain or lose?

Backward ClassReservation after Supreme Court judgement on Maratha case: who is to gain or lose?

On May 5 Supreme Court quashed Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act (SEBC Act) of 2018, providing reservation to Maratha community in public services and educational institutions. This judgement is significant in multiple ways thanks to the increasing lobbying power of reservation politics, both at centre and state. After the Indira Sawhney verdict of 1992, this[Read More…]

by 03/06/2021 Comments are Disabled India
Justice for Fathima Latheef: Normalisation of Islamophobic violence in Indian institutions

Justice for Fathima Latheef: Normalisation of Islamophobic violence in Indian institutions

The institutional murder of nineteen year old Fathima Latheef at IIT Madras has once again hogged the national limelight on the oppressive nature of India’s higher educational institutions, especially technical institutions. The stark irony of anti-caste movement is the mocking fact that the very educational institutions established to ensure upward mobility of marginalised sections continue to benevolently patronize the neo-casteism.[Read More…]

by 17/11/2019 Comments are Disabled India
Changing politics over Indian Muslim Women

Changing politics over Indian Muslim Women

Recently enacted Triple Talaq Bill is a piecemeal legislation to safeguard Muslim women’s rights regarding un-Islamic practice of marriage dissolution. While discussions are still raging over the legal propriety of rendering a civil offence to cognizable criminal one and what is the raison detre of government pushing a bill that may affect only microscopic population of Muslim community at the[Read More…]

by 29/08/2019 Comments are Disabled India