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Tulja Sukhdayalsing Sharma, aka Rani Tulja — a mechanical engineer, started Tulja Tooling with a loan of Rs 5 lakh. She speaks of what it's like in a man's world of machine tooling.

In this exclusive conversation, she speaks about her journey from being a petitioner to a lawyer in Mumbai, the support group she founded, and valuable advice she has for women going through a difficult time.

Each day in India, single mothers face criticism, judgement and discrimination. Things are far from easy for them, and we hope that together, we can make it a tad bit easy for them.

While everyone who viewed the video, including the police officials, were convinced that the lady in the video was not her, her husband chose to use this as a reason to serve her with a divorce notice.

This is the second colonial-era law that the Supreme Court has struck down this month. The first being parts of Section 377, which criminalised ‘unnatural sex’ – widely seen as an anti-homosexual law.

A prenuptial agreement is a contract entered by the parties before getting married. Prenups are extremely common abroad but are not warmly welcomed in India. 

Now that the Supreme Court has waived off this atrocious practice, there are few questions that need conscious concern at this stage.

“Justice has become elusive to Muslim women and remedy lies in the codification of the law of divorce.”

Supreme Court deliberates on whether personal laws take precedence over fundamental rights.

Raksha Bharadia studies couple relationships in the modern Indian context. With her website, Bonobology, she has created a non-judgemental space where she hopes to break some of the taboos associated with discussing love lives.