Soon enough, the Supreme Court of India will pronounce its verdict on what might be called the Muslim hijab issue. It cannot be more than a couple of weeks away as Justice Hemant Gupta, the senior judge on the Bench, retires on October 16. We cannot speculate on what the verdict will be. I shall, however, argue here that whatever it is, the petitioners will be the losers.
How can it be, you might ask? If the court rejects their petitions (there are several of them) it will be a legal defeat, which is understandable. But what if the court
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