Human Rights

'Will Come if it is in Our Podu'

Why do health workers often take the punitive route to obtain compliance from marginalised communities? How can we build cultural sensitivity into our public health practice? A story of the Solega…
▶31-Aug-2021
Prashanth N Srinivas, Tanya Seshadri, C Mahadeva, Mathew Sunil George

What the Courts Missed

In Stan Swamy's case, the courts failed to appreciate that what was at stake was also the right to dignity in death. Reparation for Swamy's death must include an apology for the wrongness…
▶05-Aug-2021
Arvind Narrain

Fr Stan Swamy: A Prophet who was a Threat to the Powerful

Fr Stan Swamy's struggle was for justice for the poor and for an India in which all people are equal.
▶06-Jul-2021
Walter Fernandes

Elections, Populism and the ‘Supreme Leader’

The structure of a democracy has elements that can enable the rise of a strong political executive. We are now witnessing many elected leaders across the world draw upon ‘people’s will’ &…
▶27-Jan-2021
Manjari Katju

Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances

The myth of ‘love jihad’ is sustained through widely circulated illustrations of ‘lustful’ Muslim men and ‘victimised’ Hindu women. These images recirculate decades-old calumnies and make invisible…
▶07-Jan-2021
Charu Gupta

Jammu and Kashmir’s New Domicile Law

Jammu and Kashmir’s new domicile law recognizes the rights of marginalized Hindu communities that had earlier been locked in social exclusion. But giving rights to one set of groups while…
▶08-Oct-2020
Mohita Bhatia

Gendering the Pandemic in the Prison

'For women, prisons are built with stones of "patriarchal" law. It is time to campaign against incarcerated pregnancies and custodial childbirths as making for cruel, inhuman and…
▶09-Jul-2020
Pratiksha Baxi, Navsharan Singh
Essay

Justice and Rights In Viral Contexts In India

There are dimensions of justice, human rights and constitutionalism that need to guide governments when there is a public health emergency as with Covid-19. The focus has to be on the right to health…
▶28-Apr-2020
Kalpana Kannabiran

Revisiting Partition Debates

Partition debates in India drew on the League of Nations’ discussions on minorities in the nation-states created after World War I. The League’s legacy persisted beyond Partition, even making a ghost…
▶08-Apr-2020
Sanjib Baruah