Siddharth Vardarajan, one of the founding editors of The Wire and Maulana Syed Athar Hussein Dehlavi, chairman of Anjuman Minhaj-e-Rasool, discuss the controversy surrounding triple talaq – or instant divorce, as allowed under Muslim personal law in India.
Dehlavi talks about the meaning of triple talaq according to Islamic principles, how the practice is anti-women and is inconsistent with Islam and whether reforming the law requires the introduction of a uniform civil code.
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