Women’s right to life and dignity remains a mirage, while hostile environments rule in India @ 75
Ragging must be seen as one stop on a continuum of structural violence that institutions of education participate in and...
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The author is a sociologist and legal scholar based in Hyderabad. She is recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research (2003) and the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists (2012), both awarded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) in recognition of her work in the field of law.
She has published widely on interdisciplinary law and gender studies, and has most recently edited and translated 'The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law' by KG Kannabiran (HarperCollins, 2022).
Ragging must be seen as one stop on a continuum of structural violence that institutions of education participate in and...
The Constitution stands on the side of the oppressed. I elaborate on this with reference to Champaran peasant testimonies gathered...
We now have questions of the ‘desirability’ of queer marriages with opinions ranging from rejection of marriage, of monogamy, to...
In this short reflection, I connect the fim 'Jai Bhim' to legal cases of encounters and custodial torture in erstwhile...
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