constitution

Bharat Mata : Not An Idea Supported By The Constitution

Avani Bansal034 views

The Constitution of India doesn’t provide for a gender for ‘Bharat’. The very first Article of the Indian Constitution states that ‘India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States’ (Article 1). So why not let ‘Bharat’, just be ‘Bharat’, one which as per the Preamble – we, the people of India (‘all’ the people of India), have given to ‘ourselves’? Why add the suffix ‘Mata’, and does this add any value to our understanding or how we relate to our Nation?

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Stand of The Supreme Court on Rights of Sex Workers: The Story so far.

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The Indian sex workers case is making the top headline these days. The recent order dated 19-05-2022 given in the case of Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal And Ors., popular as the sex workers case the Hon’ble Apex Court has categorically recognized that the basic protection of human decency and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution of India extends to sex workers and their children, who, bearing the brunt of social stigma attached to their work, are removed to the fringes of the society, deprived of their right to live with dignity and opportunities to provide the same to their children.

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अरे अभागे ! प्रेम करके तो देख !

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हिजाब पहना तो मारेंगे
जींस पहना तो मारेंगे
बुर्का पहना तो मारेंगे
टाँगें दिखाई तो मारेंगे
घूँघट हटाया तो मारेंगे
बोली तो मारेंगे !
न बोली तो मारेंगे !

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13th – A Lesson on Race, Injustice and Mass Incarceration

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In the mid-1960s, Malcolm X once remarked, “If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.” Unfortunately, to this day his words are just as salient and prophetic as they were during the Civil Rights Era. Race, discrimination, and power are the holy trinity that have shaped the American Criminal Justice System.

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Women Rights To Contraception In India And Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy In India

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It would not be wrong to argue that in India, the concept of human rights was first introduced and systematically institutionalised in 1950 when our country’s Constitution came into force. Many governmental programmes and methods have been created to supplement the rising acknowledgement of an individual’s rights, and the human rights movement has witnessed significant progress and success.

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Right to Information – An Overview

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Right to Information is perhaps one of the most effective tools to deepen democracy and actively seek accountability by enabling transparency. It gives the citizen the right to seek information held by public authorities which may be of public interest. This information can, among other things, be used as a basis for public interest litigation, and general means for justice.

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Tribulation Of Innocent Hands

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By Advocate Meenu Padha; Co- Authors – Tavleen Kaur & Vinayak Sonkar India needs an instant nationwide awareness and campaigns against the child labour to protect and safeguard children from…

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Gender Implications of Pre-Nuptial Agreements

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The sporadic distribution of persons, identity, culture, language has always been a part of the Indic civilization. This heterogeneity implied a myriad of personal laws; both codified and uncodified. Where such diversity is engrained in the social fabric of India, such diversity could also mean plurality of gendered injustices. Delhi High Court on this note grappled and encouraged the Centre to act on the idea of Uniform Civil Code such that it doesn’t “remain a mere hope”. However, the Courts’ activism is not recent. Kerala HC in Agnes Alias Kunjumol v. Regeena Thomas also highlighted the need for such a legislation for subsistence of marital institution.

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