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RSS MAGAZINE Invalidate triple talaq, give women right to divorce: Shia board marriage laws, the All India Shia AISPLB spokesperson invalidating the instantaneous Onam should focus on Vishnu, not Mahabali RAMENDRA SINGH Personal Law Board (AISPLB) Maulana Yasoob Abbas, who triple talaq, and provide women LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 9 has suggested the adoption of a submitted a draft of the nikah- the right to divorce. king, Onam should welcome Aikya Vedi (Hindu united front), Hindu dharma”, which needs to “modern nikahnama”, seeking nama (pre-nuptial agreement) Abbas also said the stand SHAJU PHILIP Vamanajayanthi, or Lord said, “Vamana is the incarnation be opposed, she said, “Mahabali OPPOSING THE rigid approach changes in the terms and con- to eminent Shia cleric Maulana taken by the AIMPLB in the THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Vishnu. of Vishnu. In the epics, even was a Vishnu (Vamana) devotee. of the All India Muslim Personal ditions of marriage under Kalbe Sadiq, vice-president of Supreme Court has “defamed SEPTEMBER 9 Unnikrishnan Namboothiri, Mahabali adores Vishnu. (So) It is Lord Vishnu is being adorned Law Board (AIMPLB) on Islamic Islamic law. AIMPLB, said he has suggested Islam”. a professor of Sanskrit at Onam should not be an occasion on Onam festival. Unfortunately, AS MALAYALEES in and outside Government Sanskrit College, for disapproving Vishnu. He we have made Vishnu a villain in Kerala get ready to celebrate Thiruvananthapuram, who should be held as a freedom the Onam folklore by depicting Onam next week, an article in wrote the article, said there is fighter who freed Kerala from an him as the force that pushed a an RSS magazine has called for little in the epics to substantiate imperialistic force (Mahabali).” popular king to the netherworld a relook into the popular legend that Onam was observed to There is little in the epics to (hell).’’ behind the festival. welcome Mahabali every year. substantiate the existing popu- Stating that Onam is a secu- An article in the latest edi- Mahabali, he said, did not have lar legend that Onam is cele- lar festival, Congress legislator tion of ‘Kesari’, the RSS’s a paunch and long moustaches, brated to welcome Mahabali, V T Balram said the attempt to Malayalam mouthpiece, con- as is depicted popularly. Sasikala said. give it a new version would only tends that instead of Mahabali, Supporting the argument, K Calling the ongoing tradition add communal colour to the the mythical Asura (or demon) P Sasikala, president of Hindu an attempt to “insult and tarnish festival.