Archive for the ‘Rights of Woman’ Category

On troubling Hadiths

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

A few thoughts on hadiths and religion in general: I had a difficult relationship with religion while I was growing up. As a child, I used to be a voracious reader and stumbled upon lots of things, including the Hadith collection my parents had. Now there was one particular Hadith that ...

Bangladesh and Citizenship: Discrimination against women

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

More nation-state woes. Right: so discrimination against women is rampant in Bangladesh, as in other parts of the world. But I was really shocked when i found out recently about some pretty fundamental discrimination: citizenship laws and how they affect women. That seems to me rather critical. Okay so ...