Andha Kanoon

Consent concerning women in India has always been taboo. Historically it has been seen as shameful for women to express their desire, notion families are carrying as "hae ladki Sharma gae" while addressing her marriage, the entire institution of marriage has always been regarded as a wedding between families and a game of men deciding her fate, the ancient Sanatan tradition of "kanyadaan" has the Genesis to such tradition which together with other misogyny prevailed throughout not confined to any particular identifiable group. Even though our constitution-makers drafted a socialist constitution making a march towards an equal society the fact remains there were only 15 women in the drafting committee out of 389 although given the right to consent which was originally taken from the Islamic doctrine of Ijaab & Qbool (offer and acceptance. But India, as society hasn't accepted freedom of consent regarding its women but the truth remains that these biases have ...

The Indian subcontinent has been a centre of interreligious and multicultural pooling although overly harmonious with few exceptions. Later, with the age of modern India religion took the front seat of the politically driven colonial vehicle at this very time small cracks of religious biases was given flood pass in the form of institutionalised communalism as quoted by Pandit Nehru on the act of 1909 famously called Morley-Minto reforms as " This act has institutionalised communalism in India" Although India got independence in 1947 institutional communalism had done its task and resulted in a religious divide that nobody had ever witness or heard of in the subcontinent ultimately lead to partition and long dark pages of history.  Subsequently, the political discourse of the country after the Nehruvian era likewise started enriching its political aspiration through a trumpet called communalism, a shortcut to victory, now blaming minority as a group began as few groups gave an...