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Snapshot of the day

February 7, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

This is how it starts and no one knows where this will end. On Wednesday, the Uttarakhand assembly – controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party – passed a law aimed at controlling the personal life choices of young men and women from the state. Officially called the Uniform Civil Code Bill, the law is neither uniform nor civil.