2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
"We are his family, we are his children."
Whatever is happening at the moment, it is said that Azam Khan has become very outspoken — that he did not talk to people like this before, and now that this is happening to him, he is remembering all these things. When such things are said, what comes to your mind, what do you think?
Student: If people who are politically against him say such things, then they do so only on political grounds. Because — I found myself here — whenever he came to the university, he always told us to move ahead. He used to say, study more, study well. He used to talk to us very nicely and used to say that if you want to progress, study here and study well.
Where Azam Khan sir is concerned — how many family members does he have? He has a small family. We are his family. We children are the future of this place. It is not that he is so selfish that he wants his children alone to study — he treats us as his own. You know that in politics, what they mean is that you people should keep doing whatever is going on with you — we are not saying such big things. When we receive that support, we don't find it lacking. This is ours. He made it for us.
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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