Dilip Kumar Gandhi (दिलीप कुमार गांधी)

I don't have a review copy of any book at home. Am I worth anything at all? Please tell, kind folx of Twitter.

Her name was Leila Seth. She was born on October 20 1930 in Lucknow. She grew up during the partition years. She was married at 22 and followed her husband Prem to London while he completed his studies. She was 27 years old and pregnant when she decided to study law. She enrolled at the Inns of Court. In 1958 she topped the bar examination, finishing first among all candidates from England and Wales. A London newspaper ran her photograph with the headline referring to her as “Mother in Law.” She had given birth months before the exam. She was the first Indian woman to top the London Bar exam. She came back to India and built a legal career in Patna for ten years. In 1978 she became the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court. In 1991 she became Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, the first woman to hold that position in any High Court in independent India. She served on the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000. Her work during that period led directly to the Hindu Succession Amendment Act of 2005, which gave Hindu daughters equal rights to ancestral property for the first time in Indian law. After the Nirbhaya gang rape in December 2012 she was appointed to the Justice JS Verma Committee, which recommended the sweeping changes to sexual assault laws that followed. Her son is the novelist Vikram Seth. She died on May 5 2017. She was 86 years old. She had pledged to donate her organs and her family held no funeral. A prayer meeting was held in her honour instead. She topped the bar exam in England while pregnant. She became the first woman Chief Justice of an Indian High Court. She helped give daughters the right to inherit ancestral property. She helped rewrite India’s rape laws. Most Indians know her son’s book. Almost none know her story. Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

While India is battling extreme challenges, and when every ounce of national energy is required just to stay afloat, we remain fixated on Hindu-Muslim, Muslim-Hindu. These are weapons of mass distraction.

I have written a lot about this - the thermal divide - and keep thinking about it. It hit me again yesterday when I ordered a Havmor Matka Kulfi on Blinkit. There was a stark, glaring gap between the situation of the delivery rider who brought it and me who ate it. I offered water, tips etc etc. Basics, during this lethally hot weather. But the gap between us - both residents of South Delhi - once again struck me, with the force of a sledgehammer. As a columnist, I don’t make policies but I think spreading awareness about this #thermaldivide in the emerging #furnaceeconomy is critical. One size fits all policies don’t work. Directives asking people to stay at home in a country where 90% are informal workers with no bargaining power don’t work. Enlightened policies are critical not just as a rights issue but also as an economic productivity issue.

@RahulGandhi writes to #CBSE on reports of data breach, Board denies leak bit.ly/2OaCMFE

Two of the greatest with Peshawar valley connections. Prithviraj ji from Peshawar city and Madhubala’s family from Maneri, Swabi

Always early... rarely wrong.

We are so busy worrying about ‘outsiders’ that we have forgotten to look at how the vast majority of ‘insiders’ are faring. Their problems will not disappear even if every single ‘outsider’ is forcibly removed. This is the stark truth.

I voted for lynchmobs and bulldozers, not CBSE errors and NEET paper leaks.

बच्चन साहब तो रोज़ एक एक गाड़ी जला रहे होंगे... 😭😭😭

Look how How propaganda News agency reports. Gurmeet Ram Rahim is Convicted rapist. Umar Khalid is an accused in Delhi riots.

बिल्कुल ठीक कहा सदी के महाना_यक ने!

India needs a reset. ASAP.

@ashutosh83B @SrBachchan x.com/BagchiAsh/stat… He's too busy

Mehangai - Video Song | Vijay Verma | Kailash Kher | Chakravyuh youtu.be/wZNSgnXy5Vo?si… via @YouTube

In old India, kids used to get report cards. In new India, they get Pakistani citizenship for questioning a minister.

Apparently, criticising fuel price hike is latest anti-national activity. Would it invite UAPA? #JustAsking

Shiv Aroor too woke for Shamika ma'am.

Amita Bachchan ji, Abhi tak kitni gaadiyan jalayi hain? #Petrol

दो टके का आदमी दो टके का ही रहता है, चाहे फिर वो 50 लाख की बुकिंग लेने लग जाये। ये राज्यसभा का एकतरफा आशिक अंदर से इतना कुंठित है कि अब सरकार का विरोध करने वाले देश के युवा छात्रों को कुचलने के लिए मचल रहा है। इसके खुद के बच्चे विदेशों में सैट हैं।