Mihir Rajamane

Category: Law and Policy

  • Petition Explained: Same-Sex Marriage Under the Hindu Marriage Act by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Giti Thadani, G Oorvasi & Gopi Shankar M

    This post is part of a series on legal advocacy involving marriage equality in India. Read other posts in the series. Who Are The Petitioners? The first listed petitioner is Abhijit Iyer Mitra. He is a gay man who has been an active member of the LGBTQIA+ community. He is a ‘commentator on security and →

  • Indirect and Systemic Discrimination: The Drawbacks of Lt Col Nitisha v Union of India

    The Supreme Court has held that the policies to grant permanent commission for women officers in the Army constituted ‘systemic discrimination’. Combining principles of indirect discrimination and systemic power hierarchies, the judgment calls for substantive equality in anti-discrimination law. Justice Chandrachud pronounced the judgment for the two-judge bench of the Court, with Justice MR Shah →

  • Marriage Equality in India: A Reading List

    This post is part of a series on legal advocacy involving marriage equality in India. Read other posts in the series. Legal advocacy for recognising marriage equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity has picked up pace at the Delhi High Court. Beginning with the first PIL filed in September 2020, and catalysed by →

  • One Rupee: The Price of the Narrative

       On 31st August, in Kerala, people celebrated Onam and in Delhi, people celebrated Prashant Bhushan’s victory- in both places, the scourge of the ‘co-opt and conquer’ strategy runs rife.    One of the dominant myths of the Onam festival is that it is the return of the king Mahabali. The Hindu narration of this tale suggests →

  • The Indian Judiciary is Under Attack

    In India, the Supreme Court has evolved it’s own system of remaining independent. According to the Constitution, the President appoints High Court and Supreme Court Justices on the advice of the Chief Justice of India and other judges as necessary. But since the President is only a nominal head, his exercise of power must come →