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Wrote for IACL-AIDC Blog, on the recent Supreme Court of India's ruling on caste-based discrimination in prisons and the potential recognition of a new constitutional right to overcome prejudice.

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The Case of Caste-Based Discrimination in Indian Prisons: A New Constitutional Right to Overcome Prejudice? — IACL-IADC Blog
Sarthak GUPTA On October 3, 2024, the Supreme Court of India (SCt), in Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India, held that caste-based discrimination within the prison system is unconstitutional for violati...
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January 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Wrote for @ejiltalk.bsky.social on the recent Lithuania's Court decision- finding the Anti-LGBTQ Law, prohibiting the dissemination of information about same-sex relationships, as unconstitutional. The decision is progressive, yet it failed to address the discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
January 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Lithuania’s Constitutional Court Rules Seeing Same-Sex Relationships Won’t Turn Kids Gay | by Sarthak Gupta
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court Rules Seeing Same-Sex Relationships Won’t Turn Kids Gay
On 18 December 2024, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court held that the law, prohibiting the dissemination of public information depicting same-sex relationships is unconstitutional as it violates t…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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A day full of history, bookstores, museum.
January 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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January 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Academic Christmas
December 15, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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It is possible for indians to have universal free healthcare. Here is a model for it. youtu.be/bacEXsDcrPw?...
Road not taken: Universal free healthcare in India
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December 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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My work is health promotion and policy around suicide 'prevention' for LGBTQ+ communities. The first project I worked on was a scoping and literature review for an online hub of services and resources for community in the state. 1/
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Wrote for IACL-AIDC Blog, on the recent Supreme Court of India's ruling on caste-based discrimination in prisons and the potential recognition of a new constitutional right to overcome prejudice.

blog-iacl-aidc.org/2024-posts/2...
The Case of Caste-Based Discrimination in Indian Prisons: A New Constitutional Right to Overcome Prejudice? — IACL-IADC Blog
Sarthak GUPTA On October 3, 2024, the Supreme Court of India (SCt), in Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India, held that caste-based discrimination within the prison system is unconstitutional for violati...
blog-iacl-aidc.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Dreamer by Avijit Datta!
December 6, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Does this taxonomy of various 'approaches' to ethnocultural minorities in deeply divided societies make sense? Suggestions/amendments in comments please.
Attitude towards ethno-cultural minorities Goal re minority culture in the private sphere Goal re minorities in the public sphere Examples Genocide Physical destruction Mass murder Ethnocide Cultural destruction Erasure Access to public institutions conditional on conversion Renaming streets, destroying shrines, criminalising difference Apartheid Domination Segregation / demonisation Second-class/denial of citizenship Segregated housing, franchise denial or suppression Assimilation Hostility Erasure No power sharing, majoritarian institutions Hijab bans, language imposition, stolen generation Integration Benevolence Indifference Power-sharing without identity entrenchment Centripetalism, ranked-choice voting, indirect affirmative action Accommodation Benevolence Celebration Power-sharing through identity entrenchment Consociationalism, direct affirmative action, proportional representation
December 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Two applications are done and submitted. Finally, can take a moment of breath!
December 3, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:

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feat. @antonhur.com, @robertjbennett.bsky.social, Ibrahim Nasrallah, The Sentence updates, and more.
Words for Worlds - Issue 84
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds!
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December 2, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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When the Supreme Court quotes you without citation, should you feel proud that your work has passed into received wisdom?
This passing remark too may be understood in light of the Directive Principles being used as a tool by the framers to accommodate ideological dissenters who would otherwise lose out in constitutional negotiations. As Directive Principles were understood as non- justiciable exhortations, the framers often made strategic concessions in their text to accommodate diverse views and ensure the deliberations did not break down. Property Owners Association v State of Maharashtra, Supreme Court of India (2024) majority opinion, para 176. This article argues, using India as a case study, that constitutional directives can be a useful tool for the expressive accommodation of ideological dissenters who would otherwise lose out in constitutional negotiations in deeply divided societies. Under certain conditions, these directives can be useful in getting populist illiberal groups to sign up to a (broadly) liberal con- stitution. T Khaitan, ‘Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Post Conversation Tarun Khaitan (@tarunkhaitan.bsky.social) @tarunkhaitan When the Supreme Court quotes you without citation, should you feel proud that your work has passed into received wisdom? This passing remark too may be understood in light of the Directive Principles being used as a tool by the framers to accommodate ideological dissenters who would otherwise lose out in constitutional negotiations. As Directive Principles were understood as non- justiciable exhortations, the framers often made strategic concessions in their text to accommodate diverse views and ensure the deliberations did not break down. Property Owners Association v State of Maharashtra, Supreme Court of India (2024) majority opinion, para 176. This article argues, using India as a case study, that constitutional directives can be a useful tool for the expressive accommodation of ideological dissenters who would otherwise lose out in constitutional negotiations in deeply divided societies. Under certain cond…
November 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM