Diwali is not just a time for celebration but also an opportunity to completely redo your entire home once a year.
However for women with a very busy schedule finding time to redecorate their home during Diwali could be a very challenging task especially when no one is around.
Women in India, like in most developing countries across the world, have suffered long-standing oppression to the point where taglines such as “striving for gender equality”, “women empowerment” and “women rights” are so popular and basic for any write-up title. In search of a unique and catchy title, I opened ChatGPT to send a prompt – “write an empowering and catchy quote on women who have discriminatory personal laws in India” and received the following response:
“Women are not just subjects of personal laws; they are champions of change, fighting for justice and equality in every corner of India.”
Behind every ancestral property now stands women with equal rights as men. It is commonly misunderstood that the property is devolved to the son(s) of the family and not the daughter(s). Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) is one such prominent practice to understand inheritance which is created by Hindu, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists family.
While we look at the statistics of the dismal number of female judges in India at subordinate judiciary level, High Courts and Supreme Court, we rarely investigate into how the subjective worldview of our own judges with a limited role for women in it, has a deep impact on promoting, and encouraging more women to join judiciary.
Where there exists a property, inheritance of the same shall always be a pertinent question. An heir is a person who is entitled to receive intestate deceased’s property under the laws in intestacy. Succession can follow only after death of a person.
By Shivangi Sharma Madhya Pradesh Home Minister has announced recently to introduce the “Love Jihad” Bill in the upcoming state assembly session. The bill, to be called Dharma Swatantrya Bill,…