This post discusses the approach in the Lok Sabha from regulating commercial surrogacy to criminalizing it and how such transition is in conflict with the guaranteed rights.
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Category: Discrimination
Call for Applications for Centre for Law & Policy Research | Equality Fellowship
The Centre for Law and Policy Research is inviting applications for its Equality Fellowship to engage in litigation and advocacy that responds to intersectional discrimination in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
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Religious Denomination – Multiculturalism, Group Rights and the Constitution
This post analyses the Supreme Court’s attempt to reconcile its dominant liberalism/individualism based approach towards fundamental rights as against the group right claims under Article 26, in the recent Sabarimala verdict.
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Sabarimala and the Essential Religious Practices Test
In this post, Vivek Anandh thematically analyses the important doctrinal conclusions on the ‘Essential Practices’ test and its discursive impact on the constitutional jurisprudence in the context of the Sabarimala Judgment.
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Social Dimensions Of Judicial Decisions: The Navtej Johar Template
In this post, the authors argue that while the Navtej Johar judgment is tool for social change, it may be unable to function as an effective measure for social acceptance.
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Understanding the Sabarimala Verdict- Part III
This post is the concluding part of a three part series deconstructing the Sabrimala Verdict which opened the gates of temple to women devotees.
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Understanding the Sabarimala Verdict- Part II
This post is the second part of a three part series deconstructing the Sabarimala Verdict which opened the gates of temple to women devotees.
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