Mallika Nawal
Mallika Nawal is a professor-cum-writer. She is a best-selling author of three management books and has taught at reputed institutes like Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar, S.P. Jain Center of Management Dubai and IIT Kharagpur. She was also part of the subcommittee on Management Education and made recommendations to the Ministry of HRD for the 11th Five-Year-Plan.
The Indian Legal System & Personal Laws
When it comes to the world, there are basically four kinds of legal system that exist: civil law, common law, statutory law, and religious law. For the uninitiated, (a) civil law is actually based on the comprehensively “written” laws of the land; (b) common law on the other hand is based on uncodified laws, where the unmodified laws have...
Whose Divorce Is It Anyway?
Of course, when it comes to the demand for Uniform Civil Code, we are simply demanding that all bad and discriminatory social practices (across religions) must be scrapped…irrespective of the religions that we are talking about. However, since it was the Shah Bano case that triggered the entire debate surrounding the Uniform Civil Code, that’s what we must deal...
Why Polygamy is Just Bad Mathematics
By any chance, have you read Steven E. Landsburg’s The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life? Well, if you haven’t, you should!
In fact, sometimes I can’t help but wonder what would happen if by some happy happenstance some of the books were to reach members of the Muslim Personal Law Board who have been fighting hard to keep polygamy...
The Precursor to the Uniform Civil Code: Shah Bano
There has been much talk, much debate and much name-calling ever since the much-hyped debate surrounding Uniform Civil Code ensued in a “secular” albeit “religiously-pluralistic” country like India. Of course, the demand and the debate for the Uniform Civil Code itself was a consequence of yet another case: The famous Shah Bano trial of 1985, which is why before...
What’s So Special About the Special Marriage Act?
Unbeknownst to many, inter-faith marriages are not so simple in Islam. First of all, only Muslim men can marry a Non-Muslim woman but the same courtesy has not been extended to Muslim women. Of course, before we cry hoarse over this blatant gender discrimination in the Islamic jurisprudence, there is one more interesting point to make here.
Even though a...
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