“In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.”

Indian lawyer and politician

Kapil Sibal is an Indian lawyer and politician. A designated Senior Advocate, he has spent much of his public life at the intersection of law and government, and has also served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha for Uttar Pradesh. He was a Union Minister in the Manmohan Singh government and has represented several high-profile cases in the Supreme Court of India. He also served as President of the Supreme Court Bar Association from 1995 to 1998, from 2001 to 2002, and again from 2024 to 2025.