Aishwarya

The BJP government’s Transgender Persons Amendment Bill is a brazen attack on the Constitutional rights and identity of transgender people. This regressive bill: - strips transgender people of their ability to self identify, violating a Supreme Court judgement - ⁠wipes out the diverse cultural identities of communities across India - ⁠forces trans people to undergo dehumanizing examinations by a medical board - ⁠introduces criminal penalties and surveillance without safeguards The BJP government hasn’t consulted the trans community and brought a bill which stigmatises rather than protects them. The Constitution protects every Indian’s right to life, liberty, identity, and dignity. This BJP government is violating our Constitution and destroying India’s rich history of honouring transgender communities in pursuit of its narrow ideas. The Congress Party unequivocally opposes this Bill.

#Interview | 'They Want to Erase Our Identity': Grace Banu on Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 @ksharmita_ is joined by @thirunangai to discuss the proposed amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=D6rrvX…

With the increasing subversion of the parliamentary processes by the government, it may be useful to revisit the structural features that weaken the opposition in the Parliament and the ways in which the opposition responds. I discuss them in my article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I wrote about the presence of anti-colonial rhetoric in global right-wing discourse for @kafila. I argue that the similarities between anti-colonial and right-wing arguments are only prima facie. Details reveal the farce: kafila.online/2025/09/15/ant…

Excited to share my essay for @epw_in where I write about all things cities - memory, modernity, history, planning and resistance. There are bits about Delhi's urban (and epistemic) politics and eight lines of poetry at the end because why not! epw.in/journal/postsc…

Wrote something. "....the Gandhian Constitution falls short of the very same standard which Sengupta has mapped out in his book and suffers from similar flaws as those that Sengupta has alleged against the Constitution."

@oracleisalive Thank you for reading and engaging!

Special Issue out now: “When Law Meets Dissent” How do opposition forces operate within and against constitutional systems? How does public law influence their struggle for relevance? And how far disconnected are its legal ideals from political practice? d7fb2.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rq…

@shohinisengupta Thank you!

Incredible!

@Dan_Schndlr, @riegnerm, and I have co-edited a special issue for World Comparative Law / VRÜ on the theme of Public Law and Political Oppositions. The symposium examines how law frames, enables, and constrains political opposition across different constitutional settings.

INDIA's VP Candidate Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Has a Long History of Batting For Democratic Values m.thewire.in/article/govern… via @thewire_In

Excited to share my first solo authored article. I discuss how the food security regime in India treats women’s labour as a free resource to implement the state’s welfare agenda and what alternative feminist imagination of the law could be. Open access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hope the battle against large-scale voter fraud is fought on the streets, not in the Supreme Court. Going to court will only remove the issue from political intervention and leave it to the grace of a random committee whose records will be sealed in an envelope.

#OpenAccess - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 2 - July 2025 Special Issue: The New Comparative Political Process Theory - cup.org/43saCP9

@rvkdandamudi @HurryUpKartik Thank you Raja!

@aish1801 @HurryUpKartik Many congratulations @aish1801 and @HurryUpKartik! I am excited to read this piece

Excited to make my EPW debut with @HurryUpKartik in their special issue on Review of Gender Studies. We look at Indian family law especially the use of restitution of conjugal rights by husbands to extract unpaid carework from wives. Article link: epw.in/journal/2025/2…

@rishabh_bajoria @HurryUpKartik Thank you Rishabh!

@aish1801 @HurryUpKartik Congratulations aishwarya! Excited to read :)

@blurredlimes @HurryUpKartik Yes, please dm me your email.

@aish1801 @HurryUpKartik Hey! Would it be possible to get a copy?

Meenakshi Ramkumar and I had discussed the possibilities the minority opinion in Supriyo leaves us with to build an alternative relational framework besides marriage to access what are understood to be matrimonial entitlements. repository.nls.ac.in/popular-media/…

Came across this very creatively written 'case comment' by @dsheikh726 and @PaliSamuel as a conversation on what the afterlife of law and queer activism could look like post-Supriyo. Was pleasantly surprised to see a short article that I had written for the Wire cited in it.