In this episode, our legal editor Eeshan Sonak is in conversation with Shreya Atrey and Gauri Pillai discussing their rewriting of Nergesh Meerza, which dealt with the constitutionality of Air India...
The Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP] is a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, and activists from law and other disciplines who use a...
The Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP] is a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, activists from law and other disciplines, who are using a...
Jhuma Sen, Rachna Chaudhary and Aparna Chandra anchor the Indian Feminist Judgments project [IFJP], a collaboration between feminist legal academics, litigators and judges, practitioners, activists...
In this explainer, Harsh Jain, our analyst identifies the key issues in the Karnataka High Court's hijab order and critically analyses the findings of the Court in each of the three issues.
Shloab Arora examines the centrality of sexual intercourse to marriage within personal laws and explains its impact on the debate around criminalisation of marital rape, and how far mere...
[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on the analysis of the Tarun Tejpal judgment. Part 1 can be accessed here.] Continuing from the discussion in Part I, the Verdict highlights the Indian legal...
[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on the analysis of the Tarun Tejpal judgment. Part 2 can be accessed here.] On May 21, 2021, the Addnl. Sessions Judge at Mapusa acquitted former Tehelka Editor...
In her response piece, Shruti Iyer writes about how Dash's article provides an apt opportunity for feminists to reflect on the outcome of their efforts. She also makes observations about the status...
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“Rubber-band” Secularism: How Islamic and Hindu majoritarianism repurpose colonial legal governance
In the conclusive post of the round-table book discussion, Professor Julia Stephens writes a response to the reviews for “Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia”. While analyzing...