On January 3, 2025 -- birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule -- I placed the following open representation to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah. The representation seeks intervention by the…
This is an argumentative piece looking at the concept of domicile reservations in Indian States from the specific perspective of National Law Schools. The purpose is to look at the…
As per a news report appearing in the Tamizh daily newspaper “Daily Thanthi”, the Tamil Nadu government has released, for the first time, the record of intersex births for the…
Six years ago, on January 10, 2019, the Socialist Students Union of Manipur (SSUM), ETA (Empowering Transgender Association) and Nupa Manba (transmen) and Nupi Manbi (transwomen) associations of Manipur conducted…
Through what parliamentary process was a three-year outlay of 6000 crore of public money set aside to purchase academic subscription from global capitalist paywalled academic publishers? How and, more importantly,…
(including a response to Anand Teltumbde’s proposed suppression of reservation benefits) Since the Supreme Court’s 6:1 verdict on sub-classification and “creamy layer” has come to pass there have been multiple…
Further to a letter dated 29 February, 2024, submitted by trans person K Arun Karthick to the Higher Education Department, the Tamil Nadu government has now released an order dated…
I started working on this essay in 2020 but had to halt writing anything for a considerable period of time. Here I am sharing a slightly edited and expanded version…
The mainstream discussions around transgender healthcare in India has been around surgery – access, cost, perpetual discrimination, botched surgeries, experimentation. Hormone replacement therapies are an equally important area of right…
Spoiler alert: If you haven't watched it yet, you can watch the film before or after reading, depending on whether you like spoilers or not. The movie ‘Super Deluxe’ released…