Tag: hinduism


  • Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    I know Ola from the choir. We unexpectedly ran into each other at an event at the Embassy of India in Warsaw where she was dancing the traditional Indian Kathak dance. We haven’t seen each other for years so I didn’t know Ola had been married to Dawood, a man from India. Today they form a marriage at the crossroads of three cultures.

  • Polygamy in India: The Muslim women have had enough of it

    Polygamy in India: The Muslim women have had enough of it

    “Unconstitutional, against the sharia, inhumane.” According to the Indian Muslim women, polygamy must be cast aside. 28-year-old Reshma, a Muslim woman from India, appealed to the court in order to prevent her husband from entering additional wedlock without her – i.e. his wife’s – written permission. Reshma’s case has sparked the debate surrounding polygamy among […]