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PROMINANT WOMAN IN TAMIL NADU
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Womensphere
Global women's news, views and issues <Click>
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A space of their own for Muslim in Tamil Nadu :
Women’s activist Daud Sharifa Khanam, first recipient of the Durgabai Deshmukh Award instituted by the Central Social Welfare Board, began a Muslim Women’s Jamaat in 2003 to provide Muslim women a space to express themselves and contest traditional, repressive diktats
A woman cannot become a member of the jamaat committee. Worse, since women are not allowed into mosques where the jamaat committee meetings are held, a woman cannot represent her own case to the committee. She can at best send her husband or brother to represent her. A woman’s life can thus be decided by a group of men without her being given even a hearing!
A Muslim woman has no space, she's confined to the kitchen, the bedroom and the delivery room. And if a woman petitions the jamat, she's not allowed to appear before it.
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Radha Venkatesan
26 Sep 2004 < Click>
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The all-male jamaats, which assemble in mosques, would ‘‘sanction’’ triple talaq without hearing the women, who are not allowed inside. ‘‘They do not get back the huge dowry money’’ leave alone maintenance, says Khanam.
While Shariat insists that men have to pay mehar to the bride, most Muslim families in TN offer just about Rs 500 and demand a huge dowry, she adds. ‘‘We write to the boy’s family to return the dowry. If they do not, we approach the local jamaat. If there is no response still, we go to the all-women police station for intervention,’’ she says.
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Woman detective
Malathy. <Click>
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Malathy, the first woman detective:
What does it take to become a successful detective? A couple of skills like Martial arts, Karate, quick-wittedness and a whole lot of presence of mind. Well A.M Malathy is no champion in the art of fighting but she sure is clever and quick witted and she is the first Women Detective of South India. "I did not choose this profession. It was an accident that I got into." says Malathy, an engineering graduate, who during her college days approached the Detective India Agency to sort out a personal problem and stayed back interested to join as a part-timer in her husband's detective agency.
Her first case was to find a person's address, and with no authentic clue in hand she managed to don the case successfully. "The only clue we had was that the person was a Christian and his daughter used to visit the church on a particular day. We also knew that she worked in a parlor. Since we dint know how the girl looked we went to the parlor first to collect details about her. With that I managed to shadow her from the church" explains Malathy. |
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Global Research,
November 16, 2004 <Click>
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