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What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong I've written in @thewire_in m.thewire.in/article/law/wh… via @thewire_In

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What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong m.thewire.in/article/law/wh… via @thewire_In

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In a seemingly routine disposal of a writ petition on April 15, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court made an observation that belittled everything the disability rights movement is working towards. These are the opening words of Arya Suresh’s eye-opening, must read piece… m.thewire.in/article/law/wh… via @thewire_In

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The SC order in N Sai Balaji vs Union of India betrays a deeply entrenched ableist presumption about what disability ought to look like, writes Arya Suresh thewire.in/law/what-a-sup…

What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong I've written in @thewire_in m.thewire.in/article/law/wh… via @thewire_In

What the court said in its judgement was the legal equivalent of looking at a marathon runner, who completes the race on a broken leg, and concluding that the fracture could not have been serious because they finished. Arya Suresh✍️ thewire.in/law/what-a-sup…

What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong Arya Suresh✍️ thewire.in/law/what-a-sup…

FUCKING LEGEND OF A RESPONSE.

@justinshanes Lina Khan vindicated once again

mumbai police has made its first arrest based on the anti-trans ammendment act. we're so screwed

Bilkis Bano was pregnant and gang raped. Her 3 year old child was murdered by smashing the head. Perhaps that foeticide that came to his mind and caused tears of shame to flow.

The first glimpse of 'Ticket to Kerala : The Story of Malayalam Cinema' in a bookstore shelf happens to be at Modern Book Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, one of my favourite bookstores. People in Thiruvananthapuram or visiting the city, please pick it up from Modern. Also available on Amazon in India and overseas.

It was once said Cairo writes Beirut publishes and Baghdad reads The photos are from Iraq

Most of our newspapers have a weird autocorrect. It changes "delimitation" to "women".

Who wouldn’t?

the polymath Raza Kazim has passed away. Besides being a lawyer, politician, philosopher and a photographer, he invented 'Sagar Veena' - the first non-fretted stringed instrument for Indian classical music. His daughter Noor Zahra Kazim is the primary performer of it.

vedanta killed 16 workers in chhattisgarh. the same vedanta whose sterlite plant in thoothukudi killed 14 protesters in 2018. the same vedanta that has been shutting down accountability with legal challenges for a decade the brand survives every disaster but the workers don't