Saniya Deogankar

Saniya Deogaonkar is a lawyer and legal researcher with an academic interest in constitutional law, secularism, religious freedom, feminism, and the intersection of law, religion, and society in India. Her research focuses particularly on questions of equality, women’s rights, personal laws, and the constitutional treatment of religious traditions.

Commentaries

When Rape Becomes an Argument against Hinduism: On Hinduphobia, Selective Secularism, and the Convenient Politics of Women’s Rights

Saniya Deogankar - October 3, 2026

Image Courtesy: World Bank Blogs Editor’s Note: This commentary is in the context of the gang-rape of a minor girl in Vadodara on a Navratri ... Read More

Saniya Deogankar

Saniya Deogankar

When Rape Becomes an Argument against Hinduism: On Hinduphobia, Selective Secularism, and the Convenient Politics of Women’s Rights

When Rape Becomes an Argument against Hinduism: On Hinduphobia, Selective Secularism, and the Convenient Politics of Women’s Rights

When Humanities Become Ideology: The Questions IIT Bombay Must Answer

“Yet Again, Patriarchy Has Won”: A BAPS Female Devotee

The Cost of Forgetting & A Return to Civilizational Roots — “Unbaptized”