Art Literature And More

Xerxes Ranina’s book explains how copyright, personality rights and AI are reshaping ownership for writers, musicians and filmmakers.

In this extract from her book Courting Equality: Landmark Cases in the Battle for Women’s Rights, Mihira Sood traces the legal history of the Sabarimala exclusion as she argues that the ban on menstruating women is not a nuanced religious requirement but a form of untouchability the Constitution’s framers deliberately left room to address.

In a speculative near future, a new British prime minister encounters an old British citizen.

Raju Z. Moray’s thirty stories, narrated by Gobble D. Gook, find the wit and humanity that court reports and judgments leave out.

‘They Created a Nation’ explores the winding journey of the ‘due process’ clause in Article 21 – from Frankfurter’s warning to Justice Subba Rao’s act of resurrection – and the judicial innovation it has enabled over 70 years.

Professor Amita Dhanda’s biography of Justice M.N. Rao traces his many careers and the judicial spine that held them together.

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.