Illustration/Uday Mohite

India is finally getting to Terminal T3, calling for an end to triple talaaq -T3 - or instant divorce by Muslim men. Till now, a Muslim man could divorce his wife faster than he could make noodles, which takes two whole minutes. The narrow 3:2 win by a single vote of the Supreme Court 'manel', that gave its verdict this week, was significant. After 70 years of Independence, the Supreme Court has just one woman judge, and she was nowhere on the panel concerning Muslim women's rights. Most telling was the minority view of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice S Abdul Nazeer: "Such a call of conscience, as the petitioners desire us to accept, may well have a cascading effect... We have to be guarded, lest we find our conscience traversing into every nook and corner of religious practices, and 'personal law'." With full respect to their lordships, if I understood them correctly, they were worried what could happen if they followed their conscience fully. Amazing.