India, April 14 -- Such has been the intensity of dialogues surrounding the idea of a "uniform civil code" that one may be well advised to refrain from commenting in its favour, lest they be labelled "communal'. The truth however, is that very few really understand or rather, care to understand what a uniform civil code encompasses. There are two examples already available within the country -- Goa and Uttarakhand -- despite which several absurd conspiracies have been purposefully floated. It is high time the record be set straight.

The foremost legal basis on which the ushering of a uniform civil code is opposed, is that the principle of secularism is a part of the basic structure of the Indian constitution and the same cannot be toyed ...