Saptarshi Mandal

Deleted facebook n linkedin recently and realised that these platforms essentially follow the talaq ahsan model. You give notice to end the relationship, followed by a waiting period. If you don’t resume the relationship during this period, it automatically comes to an end.

WoR excerpt in @Article14live! Write a review, invite me for book talks or to speak to your class. My book shows how secular critiques of Gujarat 2002 in Bollywood cinema and the Best Bakery judgments founded modern Hindutva's regimes of legalised violence. @CUP_Law @RanaAnwesha

"On 6 February 2025, Mukesh Parecha and Lailta Parmar tied the knot, in what is arguably independent India’s most revolutionary wedding." theprint.in/ground-reports…

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@JanniceK @s_ranjan Thanks, Jannice! Yes, I have my abstract accepted. I'll write to you

@SaptMandal @s_ranjan Hi, so sorry it is so difficult! Do you have an abstract accepted? Please reach out to me if you need an invitation letter (and also in case you are planning on pulling out because good for me to know as early as possible)

My annual rant; I have no idea why applying for a visa to the Schengen area feels like a dementor attack.

@PostitAcademic @IJURResearch @lizaweinstein Lawyers probably don't read Mitchell, but pseudo lawyers do :)

@SaptMandal @IJURResearch @lizaweinstein Don Mitchell is absolutely fabulous! I had no idea lawyers are reading him😃 Would look forward to what you thought whenever you have had a chance to read. Thanks!

This one has been in the making for quite a long time. But so glad that it is finally out. Thanks @IJURResearch and especially @lizaweinstein for seeing this through! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@GhoshSamyak Also, teflon is so hetero 🤮

I hope Krish Ashok reads this because he has been telling his audience that non-stick (read teflon) is safe in that irritating science-bro tone!

"The sad fact is that while Dalits have laid claim to the Dravidian model, the latter has not sought to work their concerns into its framework." V Geetha on the limitations of the Dravidian model. himalmag.com/politics/dravi…

As you celebrate India's world cup win, spare a thought for the apartheid in India #read-more" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thequint.com/news/india/guj…

Sanjana Jatav, one of the youngest Dalit women to become an MP is enjoying democracy.

A helpful account of what happened at the lecture, and yet...Brinda Bose bears out everything that G. Ajay says about bengali upper caste poco theorists.. scroll.in/article/106831…

"Neither the student who raised the query nor Spivak was innocent in their symbolic games; it was like ships passing by the night." 🎯 thewire.in/caste/the-gaya…

@ConradkBarwa @surbhi_karwa So does ritu birla in stages of capital..

@surbhi_karwa Harish Damodaran explores the caste angle much better in his “India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation”

🚨 Important ground report 🚨 Uttar Pradesh police stormed polling booths and beat up Muslim voters to prevent them from voting in Sambhal, @sighyush reports The Election Commission should read this story and watch the video testimonies scroll.in/article/106769…

Not courts, not parliament: the only effective check in Indian democracy is elections. Now that is under attack too. Read @ROKIBUZZAMAN2's ground report on the first election after seats in Assam were gerrymandered to reduce Muslim representation. scroll.in/article/106746…

An old article in the Hong Kong Law Journal, where I showed how marriage redeemed sexual acts that were otherwise considered "unnatural"...in terms of the meaning attributed to the acts, the relevance of consent, and the legal construction of the actors 🎭 academia.edu/24898470/The_W…

"Thus, while the Telangana police posthumously charge Rohith for committing the offence of forgery and identity theft, it is important to question who is robbing whom in this case." @Ankit_Kawade_ thenewsminute.com/news/the-ident…

Thinking of that time I was caught with a box of badamis and Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes in my hand luggage at Bangalore airport 🥭