The Constitution Is My Home: Conversations on a Life in Law - Hardcover

Jaising, Indira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9365698553 ISBN 13: 9789365698558

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In The Constitution Is My Home, Jaising looks back upon a life spent on the frontlines of law and activism. In conversation with Ritu Menon, she reflects on the cases and causes that have defined her career: Mary Roy and the fight for equal inheritance; Rupan Deol Bajaj and the pursuit of justice in the face of sexual harassment; Olga Tellis, which recognized the right to livelihood for pavement dwellers; Shayara Bano and the challenge to triple talaq; her long advocacy for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy; and the Sabarimala case, where she argued for women's right to worship. She also offers sharp observations on the present, marked as it is by rising Hindu nationalism, a judiciary in retreat and a democracy growing brittle by the day. Through it all, she unfailingly returns to the Constitution--as scripture, argument, shelter and home ground.

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INDIRA JAISING is a pioneering lawyer and human rights activist known for her work on gender justice, labour rights and constitutional freedoms in India. A senior advocate at the Supreme Court, she became the first woman to serve as Additional Solicitor General of the country (2009-14).

Ritu Menon is a feminist publisher and writer. She is the co-founder of Kali for Women and the founder of Women Unlimited. Among her published books are Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition; Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9365698553
• ISBN 13: 9789365698558
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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