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February 15, 2022
India: Power groups of Men and an echo of the Shah Bano case in the hijab controversy
There’s an echo of the Shah Bano case in the hijab controversy
Jyoti Punwani writes: Then, as now, powerful forces mobilised groups of men against women’s choice.