Uniform laws that empower women will be the common thread binding the nation in oneness and uphold the constitutional spirit ...

It has been 75 years since India adopted and accepted its Constitution, marking a historic milestone in its journey as an ...

The MS University of Baroda in Vadodara is facing a leadership crisis after Vice-Chancellor Professor V K Shrivastava quit ...

In the Constituent Assembly session on 14 August 1947, after Nehru’s historic “tryst with destiny” speech at the stroke of ...

there was another fierce advocate for women’s rights in the team— Hansa Jivraj Mehta. Mehta had the honour of presenting the Indian national flag to the Assembly on India’s Independence Day ...

The Constituent Assembly had 15 extraordinary women who helped draft the Constitution As we celebrate 75 years of the ...

CHENNAI: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’. This line from Charles Dickens’ famous novel, A Tale Of Two Cities, perfectly captures the early years after India’s independence when ...

Though they were vastly outnumbered by men and often faced derision, the women of the Constituent Assembly fought hard to ensure some of our most cherished rights. On April 3, 1950, law minister B ...

The work of leaders within the organisation—including stalwarts like Hansa Mehta, Naidu, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Herabai Tata, Purnima Banerji, Begum Aizaz Rasul—and outside resulted in expanded ...

In fact, Hansa Mehta and Amrit Kaur, two redoubtable women members of the CA, along with Swatantra Party leader Minoo Masani, were among the first proponents of the uniform civil code. As Amrit Kaur ...