◽️Advocate, Supreme Court of India◽️ Darbhanga || Bangalore || Delhi ◽️ NLSIU 2023 ◽️ CPI-ML (Liberation) ☭
Darbhanga
Joined February 2022
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Wrote something for @Article14live covering what trial courts ought to do in separating grain from chaff - how the difference between material contradictions and rape myths should not be obfuscated.
Give it a read!
The law allows conviction in sexual violence cases on the sole testimony of a survivor. It also requires proof beyond reasonable doubt
The challenge is balancing both.
@landbreadpeace argues that courts must scrutinise complainants—but not through assumptions about how women are expected to behave after sexual assault
Link 👇
Just read the petition: hands down one of the poorest drafted petitions: factually incorrect, AI drafted, full of hallucinations, madeup rules and objections, and heavily reliant on inapplicable legal instruments.
The fastest-finger-first petitions need to stop. Have some shame!
The petitioners argued that the right to self-identification of gender conferred by the 2014 NALSA judgment cannot be taken away by a statute.
Read more: tinyurl.com/29x36g3e
#SupremeCourt #Transgender
The entire idea of pretty privilege [or, its Hohfeldian jural correlative: "ugly no-right"] is not new. It has been an age-old tool of colonialism, patriarchy, caste, and class, to filter what would be desirable and what was supposed to be erased from public view.
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It applies to marriages, applies to social settings, applies to interpersonal relations, and applies to careers. If you are contributing to this "hotness/unhotness" discourse, and then come back to criticise patriarchy/caste, maybe think twice- you are going in circles
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Wrote a little something for The Leaflet, about how the Supreme Court has missed the point in Chinthada Anand v. State of Andhra Pradesh.
Kindly give it a read:
theleaflet.in/equality/un-ca…
Does conversion legally extinguish #ScheduledCaste status?
Data from Ranganath Misra, Sachar Committee and Mandal Commission reports all testify that caste persists beyond the Hindu community. So what does the #SupremeCourt’s judgment in #ChinthadaAnand mean for millions of Dalit Christians and Muslims in India?
@landbreadpeace examines ✍️: theleaflet.in/equality/un-ca…
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یادِ او، فاقہ کشی، و زکرِ انقلاب
نہ مرگ میسّر مرا و نہ زیست می خواہم
याद-ए-ऊ, फाक़ाकशी व ज़िक्र-ए-इंक़लाब
न मर्ग मयस्सर म'रा व न ज़ीस्त मी ख़्वाहम
ALT अब क्या कहेंगे लौट कर हैं ज़र्द सब चेहरे यह सुन न सकेंगी दास्ताँ अब उम्म उल-बनीन क़िब्ला-ए-मन जानिब-ए-मशहद-ओ-नजफ़ अस्त ईयाँकऽ न'आबुदु व ईंयाकऽनस्तईन
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Well said, comrade @akash_del06
Sending Indian workers to work in Israel cuz Palestinians aren't there to work is the 21st century version of गिरमिटिया मजदूरी (indentured labour): a "neo-indenture", if you may
शायद गिरमिटिया मज़दूरी से भी मोदी जी का बहुत पुराना रिश्ता रहा होगा
"... the entire alliance with the USA and Israel is basically favoring Indian corporations. Indian workers are being sent in hordes to work in Israel."
~ @akash_del06 (National Councilor, AICCTU) speaks at the launch of India's Tryst with the World.
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बरजस्ता शे'र ग़ौर फ़रमाएँ -
बादा में क्या रंग हो जब मुँह लगी बस मुँह लगे
अस्ल हासिल रंग है जब मुँह-लगे सिर पर चढ़ें
@saif_ali_0_0 I am really not talking about baada here 😂😂
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Publised a review of "Hum Bharat Ke Log" by @tarunkhaitan & @surbhi_karwa on @thewire_in
A much-needed and timely intervention, an accessible-yet-rigorous engagement with the Indian Constitution through nine essays written in Hindi.
Read the review here:
thewire.in/books/taking-the-…
Sometimes, I look at myself in the mirror, sleep-deprived, drowned in stimulants on the fourth night in a row, and am reminded of a Hindi idiom we read in school:
"पढ़े फ़ारसी, बेचे तेल"
Maybe, just maybe, learning Farsi was a mistake.
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The financial barriers erected by paywalls disproportionately burden early academicians, underpaid RAs, and the lesser-endowed students, engaging in rent-seeking behaviour with both the producers and users of the said knowledge.
@shaileebasu and I write for @IndianExpress
Our op-ed in @IndianExpress looks at the Delhi High Court’s recent injunction directing the blocking of Sci-Hub.
We argue that Sci-Hub cannot be equated with a “rogue website.” Its use by students and researchers falls within the fair dealing protections of the Copyright Act, and it plays a crucial role in widening access to knowledge.
By branding it as a “rogue website”, the HC risks shutting the door on marginalised students, early-career academics, and researchers who already face steep barriers to information.
Read here: indianexpress.com/article/op…
@landbreadpeace
I was reluctant to make any comment on this for too long, but was suddenly reminded in the middle of the night that Baba used to say this about shameless people:
"एकाम् लज्जाम् परित्यज्य, सर्वत्र विजयी भवेत्"
[By losing one thing- your shame, you can be victorious everywhere.]
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Guragon is in a crisis & it is not that your garbage isn't being taken out. Crisis is a xenophobic state-enabled mass exodus of the Bengali-speaking working classes.
Please read the report by @AilajHq at ailaj.wordpress.com/2025/08/…
AILAJ @AilajHq explains why the MHA guidelines that led to the recent brutal and highly discriminatory verification drive directed against Bangla speaking (mainly Muslim) migrant workers are ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
ailaj.wordpress.com/2025/08/…
Delegation of @cpimlliberation led by @Dipankar_cpiml, also visited the affected slums where the Bengali-speaking workers were living, to conduct fact-finding and speak with the people who were at the recieving end of the state-enabled exodus.
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This xenophobic and class-based onslaught on Bengali-speaking working classes is very systematic and arbitrary at the same time.
Resist this attack on otherisation of the working class!
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Growing up in Darbhanga, saw BJP men sorting voting slips in orange lotus envelopes, going door-to-door, giving it to the voters on election eves. There is this impunity to the vanar sena in DBG, no accountability to election laws.
@Dipankar_cpiml @cpimlliberation @CPIMLBIHAR
This video shows BJP mahila morcha leader of Darbhanga processing enumeration forms that BLOs are supposed to distribute and collect on the basis of house-to-house visits. The SIR is no intensive revision, it's an invasive reconstruction of the electoral roll in Bihar. #Votebandi
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The struggle for the right to universal housing, and the right to the city (RTTC) continues!
In the courtrooms, and on the streets- our struggle shall continue!
So proud of my dearest friend and comrade Supantha Sinha, Supreme Court advocate and AILAJ member, for standing with the displaced working-class residents of Wazirpur. Listen to the people of Wazirpur and their lawyer, Supantha.
youtube.com/watch?v=tcbgBLZM…
@AilajHq
