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Justice Shakdher found the exception arbitrary, Justice Hari Shankar upheld it, and the Supreme Court now has a batch of petitions while Parliament has ignored the Verma Committee since 2013

The Orissa High Court reinstated a judicial officer after ruling that her 2022 resignation, forced by the administration’s failure to act on her transfer request for her autistic son’s treatment, was not voluntary.

Making women ‘unseeable’ to preserve monastic celibacy is not tradition, it is untouchability, and the Eiffel Tower episode revives Ambedkar’s unfinished argument with Manusmriti.

As France reacted with outrage to a demand that women be kept away from BAPS sadhus in Paris, India’s own nine-judge Sabarimala bench has yet to rule on whether religious orthodoxy can override constitutional guarantees of sex equality.

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

As the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala Reference judgment remains reserved, the Solicitor General’s argument that constitutional morality is merely a “sentiment” threatens to unravel what grounded queer and transgender rights in Navtej Singh Johar, decided eight years ago today.

A close reading of Prof. Tahir Mahmood’s recent reinterpretation of the Manusmriti’s na striswatantrayamarhati alongside his 1986 position on Shah Bano reveals a four-decade pattern of recasting the denial of women's independence as an act of male “protection.”

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.