2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
"How would anyone feel when they're told the university they helped build will be demolished?"
At the moment this news came to you — this notice — that the university which was built weaving so many hopes, so many dreams, by Azam Khan sahab, was going to be bulldozed, and you were given only fifteen days' notice — what was the first thought that came to your mind?
Well, the first thing is that I never even thought that the university would be demolished. Because, firstly, I have complete faith in Allah — perhaps everyone does, but I have full faith in this: that if something is done with complete truth and honesty, then — this university, too, was built with complete truth and honesty. And in this university, so many of our children are protesting — the students are also very emotionally attached, because in building it, these children too have contributed a great deal. In the scorching heat, they themselves did the bricklaying and cement work — all of this — with their own hands, and built the university.
What do you think — what state of mind must they be going through? Not just me, everyone must feel it — that a person who is so emotionally attached to his university, to his educational institution — how would he feel when he is told that it will be torn down?
2:31Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
2:32The Uniform Civil Code imposes a dominant majoritarian framework (the Hindutva framework) on all citizens of the country. Sania Ismailee dismantles the idea that uniformity can lead to substantive equality. The first episode of Emerging Perspectives is now live:
1:35“There has never been a discussion on why a community is so politically deprived.”
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