tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post113169796871527323..comments2023-10-30T17:07:19.996+05:30Comments on Don't trust the Indian Media!: A Fatwa on you.....Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06885651813993966354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1131780431518789092005-11-12T12:57:00.000+05:302005-11-12T12:57:00.000+05:30T_M: HUF is a great tax-break for married people i...T_M: HUF is a great tax-break for married people if you know how to use it well. And being the underpaid starving soul that I am who pays more than 15% of his gross every month to the government, I believe all tax breaks are good.<BR/>But then again, succession laws in India need drastic changes. My colleague had done a great piece explaining sucession laws during the Birla-Lodha spat.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885651813993966354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9917432.post-1131735708975680802005-11-12T00:31:00.000+05:302005-11-12T00:31:00.000+05:30Let me get a hold of my friend Em, and then we'll ...Let me get a hold of my friend Em, and then we'll have all the crazy fatwa stories from Iran! Actually given the tightly structured Iranian clerical hierarchy, most clerics are fairly well-read at least in Islamic theology, and yet the kind of nonsense they come up with is unbelievable. The kookiest of them all of was of course Khomeini himself. <BR/><BR/>I'm all for the Uniform Civil Code, since we already have a Uniform Criminal Code. However, it should not be modelled on the existing Hindu Code, and also do away with sexist Hindu property laws and provisions like the Hindu Undivided Family. <BR/><BR/>Given the vehement protests of the Jan Sanghis and then BJP (Advani leading the charge)at every round of legislative reform in the Hindu Code (the first in 1956 and then divorce reform in 1976), it seems very unlikely.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.com