Art Literature And More

More than a nostalgic piece of literature, ‘The Constitution is My Home’ is a secular feminist manifesto with the potential to delineate a ‘Theory of Post-Colonial Indian Political Thought and Jurisprudence’.

Born a refugee from Pakistan, Indira Jaising found belonging not in a state but in the text of the Constitution. At the launch of her memoir, in conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, she was as unsparing as ever – on majoritarianism, gender justice and the Bar’s dangerous silence.

Legal scholar Arvind Narrain reviews ten books he read over last year that engage with the complex truths of law and political transformations - from a post-370 Kashmir to an alternative thinking on the Indian Constitution.

Legal scholar Arvind Narrain reviews ten books he read over last year that engage with the complex truths of law and political transformations - from a post-370 Kashmir to an alternative thinking on the Indian Constitution.

This month, the ‘Staying Alive’ series on 20 years of India’s domestic violence law, brings us reflections from the members of the Lawyers Collective team that worked on the drafting of the PWDVA and its Rules.