Author Archives: Sourya Banerjee
The LAW Learners Constitutional Amendment Writing Competition 2019 |Application Deadline:14th February|
The LAW Learners announces its flagship Event, TLL 2nd Constitutional Amendment Writing Competition 2019. It runs on a very simple proposition - If you were the Parliament of India, what Constitutional Amendment…
Centre for Civil Society 2 Day Certificate Course on Law & Policy on 26-27th Jan at Delhi & Mumbai |Application Deadline 22nd Jan|
The Republic Day marks the day when the Constitution came into effect. Today, the Constitution is often used as an instrument for progressive change or seen as an aspirational document…
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Explained.
THIS SERIES IS MEANT TO ACT AS A READY REFERENCE FOR VICTIMS/LAYMEN. VERSIONS OF ALL ARTICLES IN THIS SERIES CAN BE FREELY DOWNLOADED IN PDF FORMS AND SHARED. KINDLY NOTE…
Centre for Civil Society 2 day residential course on Politics of Development. [Limited Seats Available]
Why does India remain a poor country with some development indicators among the worst in the world? Why does the top 1% bag more than 70% of the country’s wealth? …
Thousands of transgender people protest against the Transgender Rights Bill and Trafficking Bill at New Delhi
On the 28th of December, 2018, thousands of transgender, intersex and gender non-confirming people and their allies came together in New Delhi at Parliament street on Friday morning to protest…
Trans “Right” Bill passed in Lok Sabha despite flaws and opposition; Transgender Community protests.
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018 was heralded as another example of how despite its seemingly good intentions, it avoids engaging with the actual stakeholders who are impacted by the law,…
Supreme Court Rafale Order Simplified [Writ Petition (Criminal) 225 of 2018 & Ors]
The Hon'ble Supreme Court on the 14th of December, 2018 dismissed petitions calling for an investigation into the controversial Rafale Deal, by which the Indian government procured 36 fighter jets…
Democracy, on paper.
Democracy and local governments; the idea is to bring in to power, the people that know and want certain changes in their current state of living in the community, not…
TISS Hyderabad BA Students declare indefinite boycott against Management shut down of BA course and Hostels
The students of Tata Institute of Social Science, Hyderabad, have boycotted their classes and organised a sit-in protest in front of the SR Sankaran Block, from November 10 condemning the…
TISS Hyderabad discontinues the BA Social Science course and makes it a Non-Residential Campus, B.A Student Collective calls for a protest on 10th December
Despite being one of the few government-funded undergraduate programmes offering quality social sciences education with an interdisciplinary approach, the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Hyderabad, had recently decided to…