About NLSIU Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture
The National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, is organising the 5th, Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture on April 29, 2025, at 4.30 pm. The lecture will be delivered by Zakia Soman, Founder member of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, India, on the topic ‘Waqf Law on the Anvil’.
Where: New Academic Block 203, NLSIU
When: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 4:30 pm
Open to the Public
About the Lecture Series
This memorial lecture was initiated by the Institute of Public Policy with the support of Prof. Abdul Aziz, Chair on Religious Minorities, NLSIU, in memory of his father, Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar. Mr. Ghaffar passed away in 1982 in Hunasikote at the age of 74.
The first lecture in this series was delivered by Prof. Karkala Seetharam on April 3, 2019, on the topic “Human Rights as Public Policy.”
About the Speaker: NLSIU Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture
Zakia Soman is a founder member of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a mass organization of muslim women in India. She heads the Peace and Human Security theme at Action Aid. She is a member of Saape, the South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication, which engages with the issues of excluded communities regionally. She works and writes on issues of peace and justice, secularism, human rights, minority rights, and rights of muslim women. Her articles advocating the rights of Muslim women and tolerance and harmony with other communities are published in various Indian publications. She has edited a book on Dalit Muslims and a volume on peace and justice in South Asia. She has been a university lecturer and a newspaper editor in Ahmedabad.
About the Discussant
Prof. Ravivarma Kumar is a former Advocate General of Karnataka and Chairperson of the Karnataka Backward Classes Commission. Kumar has appeared in many prominent cases in his career, especially involving Constitutional Law, where he has drawn parallels with symbolism in other faiths and relied on Article 15 of the Constitution, which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of religion.
