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prof, your next academic work on themes of gender and sexuality might be coming out soon, but when are you coming out in support of trans people?
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Dear @jaynakothari @arundhatikatju if you are representing Transgender community in high courts, bare minimum you could do is consult with wider community & make necessary submissions including those of us who're affected immediately. Please be sensible 🙏🏼
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The fact that this is a submission before a nine judge bench makes it all the more threatening.
Clifton D' Rozario@clifroz
Para 138, pg. 40, Vol - II of the Union Government's submissions
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Your narcissistic self promotion and need for validation is what’s pushed every single one into damage control.
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Honestly, the dizzying amounts of writs and PILs filed in the Courts, without any consultations whatsoever or broader conversations, is concerning. Some of these, if not most, are driven by the desire to be the first and to have their own names on the cases.
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And that this centralisation is not accidental, but a product of our framers’ design choices.
So if you want to think seriously about reform, you have to start with the Constitution, which unfortunately never really challenged the colonial era’s executive supremacy.
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The Indian Constitution, for reasons I discuss at length elsewhere, does not do so: the original Constitution is a heavily “executive-trusting” document, which leaves powers of appointment of all major institutions to the executive. It “trusts” the executive to do right.
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After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.
It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.
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I know I will be annihilated if I report what happened to me and who did it. Cos it's often the most liberal aware feminist saintly men who turn out to be the perpetrators.
Kia 🧸ྀི@xevekiah
“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.” When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough. Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?” Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime. He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks. That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.
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Disenfranchisement at this scale is not about excluding groups of voters - it’s re-drawing the Indian electorate both in terms of region and religion.
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And in the elgal field u come across so many lawyers larping as progressive who clearly just want to be the main character in any movement with their fancy irganisations. It sickens me because they arent egen affected by most of these policies and have no actual solidarity
Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88
This is incredibly disappointing to see, but also not surprising - it’s just visible evidence of how broken constitutional litigation is in India, and has been for a while (and why, after every law, people beg others not to rush to the SC - but to no avail). Brief 🧵.
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@lucifer_damned That’s not very dialectical materialist of you
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UC “leftists” be like we will call the masses “boot lickers” , “lived experience red pilled masses” , “foot soldiers” and then wonder why they don’t follow us to a revolution. At least the RW is honest in its contempt & isn’t as opportunistic in feigning concern for their lives
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@winxytopia It looks like he’s on the third page… why would he do that to himself
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why's he tryna aura-farm so hard man
The Times Of India@timesofindia
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP #RaghavChadha on Monday shared a cryptic Instagram post amid his ongoing rift with the party leadership. #Chadha's post showed him reading the #book "The 48 Laws of Power" by US author Robert Greene. He also shared images of the book cover and its first #chapter. More details 🔗 toi.in/0LagnY
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Explain to me like I’m a 5 year old: why would you give up on stay in the first few minutes of a constitutional challenge when (a) provisions are ex facie in violation of existing law; (b) amendment is yet to be operationalised through rules; (c) amendment directly affects body?
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The trans petition, riddled with defects and possibly filed in bad faith, perfectly illustrates why the legal path is not only futile but dangerous. Whether the petitioners were "planted" by the BJP or simply acted out of liberal naivety is immaterial;
Yes, We Exist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@YesWeExistIndia
Supreme Court has flagged 20 types of defects in the petition and given 3 months to fix them. Defects includes procedural flaws, blank pages, missing Annexure, etc.
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