Uttarakhand UCC resembles colonial South African law. Kasturba Gandhi fought against it

Alok Prasanna Kumar is a Co-Founder of Vidhi. His areas of research include judicial reforms, constitutional law, urban development, and law and technology. He graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the NALSAR University in 2008 and obtained the BCL from the University of Oxford in 2009. He writes a monthly column for the Economic and Political Weekly apart from media outlets such as Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Indian Express, Scroll, and Quint. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court from the chambers of Mr Mohan Parasaran.

Varini G is a BA LLB (Batch of 2023) graduate from the School of Law, Christ University, Bengaluru. She currently works as a Research Fellow with the Karnataka team assisting various departments and local governments in Karnataka. Her primary interests are local governance, devolution of power, urbanism and socio-economic rights through critical and feminist approaches to the law, policy and governance. She believes in participatory approaches, radical decentralisation and equitable access to cities. Her nonacademic interests are reading speculative fiction and exploring different music cultures. She enjoys a history of everything, the outdoors, nature and spicy food.