What is Sodomy

Contemporary India is a multicultural society that is pluralistic with regard to family laws. Different groups in India have separate religious personal laws that India's secular state is reluctant to reform. These laws deny even formal equality in personal relations. They have generated debate about the meaning of gender equality in India. Women occupy a less advantageous position in the arena of religious personal laws, which in fact goes against the Constitutional guarantees of equality and also cherished human rights. In India the constitutionally guaranteed gender equality is to be juxtaposed with the harsh societal realities. A uniform civil code (UCC) with all the existing discrepancies and inequalities is not the solution for the issue. The existing laws governing family relations should be critically analyzed and redefined from a feminist jurisprudential perspective, which of course should be the basis of UCC.