Saurabhbhbhbh
@saurabhbhbhbh.bsky.social
Labour Law, Law & Poverty, Refugee Law & Sports Law, NALSAR & Michigan Law, trying to grow out of cricket & C Eastwood but not Ennio Morricone, Teaching at NLS Bengaluru
Compared to Union government’s Social Security code, the state gig work legislations go further by not just providing a framework of social security, but also regulating certain aspects of conditions of work-I speak to IndiaSpend on new state laws for gig workers
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‘Gig Work Legislations Significant In Opening The Space For Labour Protection’
Compared to the Union government’s social security code, the state gig work legislations go further by not just providing a framework, but also regulating certain aspects of conditions of work, says.....
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September 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Compared to Union government’s Social Security code, the state gig work legislations go further by not just providing a framework of social security, but also regulating certain aspects of conditions of work-I speak to IndiaSpend on new state laws for gig workers
www.indiaspend.com/indiaspend-i...
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"For late-diagnosed adults, a diagnosis can come after decades of struggle, being ostracised and othered...an autism diagnosis is almost universally seen as a gateway to understanding, of positive benefit to self-identity and self-esteem. This is not something that should be rationed or withheld."
While bad actors catastrophize about the increase in autism diagnoses, it "is actually a long-needed correction of a longstanding bias, which had overlooked many in need of support." And do we really want to go back to blaming autism on "refrigerator mothers"?
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Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon
A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon
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July 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"For late-diagnosed adults, a diagnosis can come after decades of struggle, being ostracised and othered...an autism diagnosis is almost universally seen as a gateway to understanding, of positive benefit to self-identity and self-esteem. This is not something that should be rationed or withheld."
Lesson learned in the last 3 months: With chronic progressive diseases, external improvement can be deceptive and lull us into complacency. Don’t skip the prescribed blood tests, X-rays/ MRIs routine. The disease may be progressing faster, silently beneath the surface.
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lesson learned in the last 3 months: With chronic progressive diseases, external improvement can be deceptive and lull us into complacency. Don’t skip the prescribed blood tests, X-rays/ MRIs routine. The disease may be progressing faster, silently beneath the surface.
"Once you have declared war on diversity, an attack on the idea of neurodiversity will not be far away. It also chimes with one of the new right’s most pernicious elements: its constant insistence that everything is actually much simpler than it looks." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies | John Harris
The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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April 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"Once you have declared war on diversity, an attack on the idea of neurodiversity will not be far away. It also chimes with one of the new right’s most pernicious elements: its constant insistence that everything is actually much simpler than it looks." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I thrived in the law school. Pattern recognition and single-mindedness that reading and synthesising cases entails actually played to my strength. My ability to read quickly also helped a lot.
"There’s a stereotype that autistic people are generally drawn to STEM fields & that law is an anomalous profession for us to go into, but in my experience that is not true. I have known & worked with quite a few openly autistic lawyers." @samanticka.bsky.social:
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Lawyer Spotlight: Sam Crane
Sam Crane, a late-diagnosed autistic individual, discusses the stereotypes associated with autistic people in law, the role the law plays in disability advocacy, and the advice she would give to aspir...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I thrived in the law school. Pattern recognition and single-mindedness that reading and synthesising cases entails actually played to my strength. My ability to read quickly also helped a lot.
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Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
April 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
"The false idea that autism is caused by an “injury,” by something external going wrong, makes people more afraid of autism and of autistics. So does the idea that it is better for a child to die of a vaccine-preventable disease than to live as an autistic person."
"Untrue, impossible, & ableist": We join @autisticadvocacy.org in condemning HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ignorant, absurd promise that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.”
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Trump and Kennedy Spouting Dangerous Autism Misinformation - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Today in a cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This al...
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April 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The false idea that autism is caused by an “injury,” by something external going wrong, makes people more afraid of autism and of autistics. So does the idea that it is better for a child to die of a vaccine-preventable disease than to live as an autistic person."
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In Revisiting the Archives this week, articles from SLR's pages on the intersections of law, technology, and society. These articles deal with important issues of digital governance, privacy, and data protection from a socio-legal perspective.
March 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In Revisiting the Archives this week, articles from SLR's pages on the intersections of law, technology, and society. These articles deal with important issues of digital governance, privacy, and data protection from a socio-legal perspective.
"Knowing I’m on the spectrum has improved my life for the better. I’m able to give my co-workers and loved ones context for how to understand and interact with me."
"I’ve been inspired by the strength of the parents & [autistic] children who have struggled more than I have, often because they didn’t get the attention & support they deserved. Getting more people diagnosed has helped with this problem." @holdenthorp.bsky.social:
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Opinion | Sorry, R.F.K.: There Is No Autism Mystery (Gift Article)
Greater awareness, not vaccines, has driven an increase in diagnoses.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"Knowing I’m on the spectrum has improved my life for the better. I’m able to give my co-workers and loved ones context for how to understand and interact with me."
"Over half of the surveyed women cited a lack of flexible shifts as a barrier...About 42 per cent of women believe they are underpaid compared to their male counterparts, with fewer opportunities for promotions."
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‘Only 1 in 5 blue-collar workers is a woman; wage gaps persist’
About 78 per cent of employers are planning to hire more women in blue-collar roles in 2025, marking a 5 per cent increase in hiring intent compared to the 73 per cent in 2024. Despite the high percen...
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March 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"Over half of the surveyed women cited a lack of flexible shifts as a barrier...About 42 per cent of women believe they are underpaid compared to their male counterparts, with fewer opportunities for promotions."
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This claim that there has been fraud in preparing India’s voter list is at the core of a new consensus emerging within the Opposition
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Voter rolls, not just EVMs: How Opposition is coming to a new understanding on BJP’s alleged rigging
INDIA parties are pooling ‘technical expertise’, exchanging information and coordinating behind the scenes on the issue, Scroll has learnt.
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March 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This claim that there has been fraud in preparing India’s voter list is at the core of a new consensus emerging within the Opposition
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The latest issue of SLR is now out! Vol 20(1) brings together insights from science and technology studies, legal history and writing pedagogy, empirical social sciences and philosophy, ethnographic fieldwork, queer theory, and constitutionalism. Read at: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
March 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The latest issue of SLR is now out! Vol 20(1) brings together insights from science and technology studies, legal history and writing pedagogy, empirical social sciences and philosophy, ethnographic fieldwork, queer theory, and constitutionalism. Read at: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
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EXPRESS INVESTIGATION: Team Musk flags, Donald Trump waves, but a FACT-CHECK: $21 million did not go to India for ‘voter turnout’, it was for Bangladesh. Jay Mazoomdaar reports #IndianExpress
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Team Musk flags, Trump waves, but a fact-check: $21 million did not go to India for ‘voter turnout’, was for Bangladesh
Donald Trump himself, in a speech in Miami Wednesday, said: “Why do we need to spend $21m for voter turnout in India? Wow, $21m! I guess they were trying to get somebody else elected.”
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February 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
EXPRESS INVESTIGATION: Team Musk flags, Donald Trump waves, but a FACT-CHECK: $21 million did not go to India for ‘voter turnout’, it was for Bangladesh. Jay Mazoomdaar reports #IndianExpress
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The NLS BA (Hons) will have a common core (shared with the BA LLB (Hons) programme), majors and minors, a language training component, an internship component, and a basket of practice courses.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The NLS BA (Hons) will have a common core (shared with the BA LLB (Hons) programme), majors and minors, a language training component, an internship component, and a basket of practice courses.
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AUGMENT Laboratory Mentorship Initiative of CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi has a programme for autistic students who have a keen interest in science to spend between a week to 2 months in a lab at CSIR-IGIB. More details can be found at sites.google.com/view/augment...
Laboratory Mentorship Program
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) is a national research institute focusing on genomics-driven modern biology under the CSIR network. A unifying theme of the institute is ...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
AUGMENT Laboratory Mentorship Initiative of CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi has a programme for autistic students who have a keen interest in science to spend between a week to 2 months in a lab at CSIR-IGIB. More details can be found at sites.google.com/view/augment...
"A nation that neglects its trains in favour of highways is not merely choosing one mode of transport over another. It is deciding about who gets to move, who gets left behind and what kind of country it wants to be." scroll.in/article/1079...
How India’s shift to a car-centric transport model is derailing national mobility
The weakening of the railways is forcing the working class into expensive automobile transport, reinforcing social isolation and economic exclusion.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"A nation that neglects its trains in favour of highways is not merely choosing one mode of transport over another. It is deciding about who gets to move, who gets left behind and what kind of country it wants to be." scroll.in/article/1079...
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SLR 20th Anniversary Celebrations | Revisiting the Archives | This week, we showcase our past scholarship on religion and minoritisation in India through articles on terrorism cases, hate crime, the essential religious practices test, housing discrimination, and desire.
February 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
SLR 20th Anniversary Celebrations | Revisiting the Archives | This week, we showcase our past scholarship on religion and minoritisation in India through articles on terrorism cases, hate crime, the essential religious practices test, housing discrimination, and desire.
Allusion to autism and other disabilities as “a dire threat to ...our way of life" is remarkably similar to the language deployed by the Nazi regime against disabled persons.
The Nazis described disabled persons as “empty human shells” and “life unworthy of life”.
The Nazis described disabled persons as “empty human shells” and “life unworthy of life”.
A recent US presidential EO "refers to autism and other disabilities as 'a dire threat to the American people & our way of life.' This is fundamentally inaccurate. Autistic people have always been here, including before America existed. We aren’t new."
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ASAN Condemns Announcement of President’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission and Harmful Ideas about Autism and Other Disabilities - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
On February 13th, the president issued an Executive Order saying that the administration would be establishing a commission to attempt to lower the prevalence of autism and chronic health conditions i...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Allusion to autism and other disabilities as “a dire threat to ...our way of life" is remarkably similar to the language deployed by the Nazi regime against disabled persons.
The Nazis described disabled persons as “empty human shells” and “life unworthy of life”.
The Nazis described disabled persons as “empty human shells” and “life unworthy of life”.
As climate change takes toll on maternal mental health, ASHA workers are tackling the challenge scroll.in/article/1079...
As climate change takes toll on maternal mental health, ASHA workers are tackling the challenge
Even as researchers are trying to understand the phenomenon, India’s community health workers are acting as an early warning system.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
As climate change takes toll on maternal mental health, ASHA workers are tackling the challenge scroll.in/article/1079...
"It’s not enough to let people know that vaccines don’t cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved."
“While my son’s autism became more obvious around the time he was getting most of his vaccines, there was zero evidence of a regression or an autistic traits explosion after the shots. The timing was a coincidence. Nothing more.” Reposting, please share.
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Let's Talk About Why My Autistic Son Is Fully Vaccinated — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
If you have concerns about vaccines and autism, please listen to my story of becoming—but then un-becoming—an anti-vaxxer autism parent.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"It’s not enough to let people know that vaccines don’t cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved."
One should not read too much into such registration of platform workers by the aggregators on eshram portal since such registration does not provide any guaranteed statutory entitlement to workers www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/for-...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
One should not read too much into such registration of platform workers by the aggregators on eshram portal since such registration does not provide any guaranteed statutory entitlement to workers www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/for-...
"while nominal wages across six major manufacturing and infrastructure sectors increased by 0.8%-5.4%, retail inflation was between 4.8% and 5.7%, implying either stagnant or declining real wages." scroll.in/article/1078...
Stagnant wages, inflation slowing down Indian economy
Unless the perverse conditions in the labour market are remedied, India will find it difficult to sustain high GDP growth.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"while nominal wages across six major manufacturing and infrastructure sectors increased by 0.8%-5.4%, retail inflation was between 4.8% and 5.7%, implying either stagnant or declining real wages." scroll.in/article/1078...