Ziya Us Salam is an associate editor with Frontline. A noted literary and social commentator, he is involved in building bridges of commonality through a study of the Vedas and the Quran. He has served on the jury of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and been a part of the jury for Best Writing on Cinema in 2008. He has also been on the preview committee of IFFI (world cinema). His book, Delhi 4 Shows: Talkies of Yesteryear, a study based on the cinema halls of Delhi, was released in 2016. In 2012, he edited a book titled Housefull: The Golden Age of Hindi Cinema. Adopting a multilayered approach, he writes about literary and cinematic developments regularly and has contributed to anthologies published by the Oxford University Press, Roli Books, the publications division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the

Shayara Bano knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court to challenge her husband s sudden decision to end their marriage using the dreaded words: talaq, talaq, talaq. A 1980s Bollywood movie sparked off a national debate on the validity of instant divorce, which even saw Dawat a four-page daily published by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind talk about triple talaq as per the Quran. For a long time now, the battle against instant talaq has garnered public attention. In Till Talaq Do Us Part, Ziya Us Salam, an eminent social commentator and an associate editor at Frontline, presents a holistic view of how the divorce procedure works in Islam. Ranging from talaq granted over three months to khula and talaq-e-tafweez, the book discusses other methods of divorce available to a Muslim couple which go ignored because of all the focus on talaq, talaq, talaq