Ravish’s silence

IN Media Watch Briefs | 18/10/2016

NDTV India’s Ravish Kumar interviewed NALSAR VC Faizan Mustafa on a two-part programme on the current controversy regarding triple talaq & the Uniform Civil Code. Mustafa opposes the petitions in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on triple talaq -- and to let just one viewpoint come across in two programmes was surprising. But what was shocking was Ravish’s silence (on Oct 17) when Mustafa made an openly personal remark about the two founders of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan who have petitioned the SC against triple talaq. Had such a remark been made by a mullah, Ravish would have swiftly cut him off. But there wasn't a murmur from the anchor who makes no bones about his secularism and support for women’s rights.

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