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Dangers to the Constitution and Idea of India Through Playbook of Unitarisation

Dangers to the Constitution and Idea of India Through Playbook of Unitarisation

Akshat Khaitan
10 min read
In the last 12 years, the BJP has not only attacked India’s liberal democratic constitutionalism but has also attempted to manufacture a competing vision that runs contrary to the Constitution itself

20 Years of the Domestic Violence Act

‘We assumed the DV Act would be an easy win’: Sara Hossain on the DV Act in Bangladesh, and its parallel history with the PWDVA

‘We assumed the DV Act would be an easy win’: Sara Hossain on the DV Act in Bangladesh, and its parallel history with the PWDVA

In this edition of ‘Staying Alive’, Sara Hossain, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and working pro bono at the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust reflects on the drafting of Ba ...
By
Asmita Basu
16 min read
On the Domestic Violence Law: How the PWDVA has been domesticated with dubious interpretations

On the Domestic Violence Law: How the PWDVA has been domesticated with dubious interpretations

Despite research showing that women’s complaints under the Domestic Violence Act are overwhelmingly genuine, courts and lawmakers continue to entertain claims of ‘misuse’ while the law itself remains ...
By
Justice K. Chandru (Retd.)
12 min read
‘Hospitals offer a critical window of opportunity for supporting survivors’: Making the PWDVA work in health systems

‘Hospitals offer a critical window of opportunity for supporting survivors’: Making the PWDVA work in health systems

In the July edition of ‘Staying Alive’, we ask what the PWDVA’s mandate looks like inside a hospital ward, twenty years into Dilaasa, the CEHAT and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation initiative that t ...
By
Sangeeta Rege
9 min read
‘A woman has to be beaten up to be able to use the PWDVA’: A survivor’s reckoning with promises the law offers

‘A woman has to be beaten up to be able to use the PWDVA’: A survivor’s reckoning with promises the law offers

In the June edition of ‘Staying Alive’, a survivor recounts how a lawyer told her the PWDVA offers no remedy without physical abuse, and why twenty years after the Act recognised emotional and economi ...
By
The Leaflet
10 min read
‘The DV Act is a huge law with great significance, and it is under threat’: Hasina Khan on Muslim women, youth, and PWDVA

‘The DV Act is a huge law with great significance, and it is under threat’: Hasina Khan on Muslim women, youth, and PWDVA

In the May edition of ‘Staying Alive’, Hasina Khan, of the Bebaak Collective, traces how the PWDVA became a crucial tool for Muslim women navigating divorce threats, for young adults facing family con ...
By
Asmita Basu
13 min read