arundhatikatju अरुंधती काटजू
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Litigator. Yoga practitioner. Fought and felled #section377 , Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India. #time100 And now #marriageequality
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ICYMI: Your story can change the law and your life. Here's my Ted talk on litigating the
#section377
case in the
#supremecourt
: telling the stories of the brave and inspiring
#lgbtq
petitioners who came to court to challenge the law. Enjoy!
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Happy Constitution Day, Happy Pride!
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When you sit at your desk do you need to waste almost 30 minutes on Twitter before getting down to work? Or is it just me?
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Just getting
@MenakaGuruswamy
’s attention because she’s been on twitter all evening. Come eat dinner.
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Three Kashmiri Pandits in the freedom struggle. My great grandfather KN Katju (Bapuji), g-g grandfather Tej Bahadur Sapru, and Nehru.
1945 :: Jawaharlal Nehru , Kailash Nath Katju and Tej Bahadur Sapru Going to Red Fort to Defend Soldiers of Indian National Army of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
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I hope
@MenakaGuruswamy
and I can be as good parents to our children as our parents have been to us.
@VivekKatju
writes of his and my mother's journey in today's Indian Express.
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Most court days you'll find me in a sari! Something about the 6 yards makes me sit up a little straighter, collect my thoughts and energy for arguments...
#SareeTwitter
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Ek retweet to banta hai :)
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06.09.18 would not have been possible without the strength and resilience of those who fought
#377
for decades, and those who put their names on the record before our top court. And there are battles ahead, but the journey has begun.
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Amidst all the ‘me at 20’ nostalgia, I just want to say ... life gets better as you get older. 30s>20s any day.
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Knowing exactly how long to dip the biscuit in your chai is truly an art form.
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Watching
@SreenivasanJain
interviewing ram vilas Paswan but I’m confused. People are hungry now, but we should hold onto our food stock so we can use it later? And releasing it for free will cause losses to GOI? What happened to jaan hai jahaan hai?!?!
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How do you write and also hold down a day job
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I’m on day 89 of a 90 day workout routine.
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Is there any point to chai without biskut?
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One step at a time. Consensual Cohabitation Between Two Adults Of Same Sex Not Illegal; They Have A Right To Live Together Even Outside The Wedlock: Uttarakhand HC [Read Order]
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Please tag those who need to read this.
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Is it possible to wear your favourite white shirt and eat dal for lunch and not end up with haldi stains?
If you are that person I want to grow up and be like you.
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Hey
@JM_Scindia
I’m flying 6E2028
@IndiGo6E
and they have no child seatbelt for my daughter who’s not even 2. I’ve shown them MCA circular of 14 Feb 2022 on child safety guidelines which recommend this and they say it’s not Indigo policy to provide these belts. Pl take action.
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5 years from 06.9.2018, when the Indian Supreme Court struck down 377 IPC. Happy fifth, everyone. 🌈 🇮🇳 ❤️
@KirpalSaurabh
@NavtejJohar
@MenakaGuruswamy
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Can we all take a moment to thank our domestic help who are back today. Since the lockdown, I've been struggling to write, mindspace occupied by khaana bartan jhadu pocha. So much of "productivity" is thanks to their labour. 🙏
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That moment when you realize that your lipstick is (a) not going to be seen and (b) will also ruin your mask.
!!!
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But we have grain stocks which could be released to the states AND Sharadakka could keep her savings. This is what the government is supposed to ensure, not private citizens. Not the poor.
Karnataka: Udupi Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesha, yesterday, felicitated Sharadakka, a fisher-woman who spent her savings of Rs 30,000 to distribute rice among 140 poor families in her neighborhood.
#CoronaLockdown
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When will there be enough women judges in the Indian Supreme Court?
‘When there are 31, of course’.
Remembering the Notorious RBG in today’s TOI.
Notorious RBG: Rock star judge: Justice Ginsburg crafted a winning strategy to end legal sex discrimination
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Ok tweeples! Here is the full segment.
@MenakaGuruswamy
and I had the pleasure of being on
#GPS
with
@FareedZakaria
to talk about taking down
#section377
, postcolonial law, and the future of
#LGBT
rights globally.
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असल में ग़लती चाचा नेहरू की है।
BJP rejects Congress allegations, says Sonia, Rahul have messed up migrants’ shifting
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I write in the Indian Express on the need for the Supreme Court to livestream its proceedings. In the sun, and in the light via
@IndianExpress
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Are these deaths, ‘हम भारत के लोग’, included in our count of corona virus deaths?
12-yr-old walks 100 km, dies just short of Bijapur home via
@IndianExpress
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If there's just one woman on a 17-member panel, it's still a
#manel
.
Jaan Bhi, Jahan abhi.
#eAgendaAajTak
starts soon on
@aajtak
17 top ministers from the
@narendramodi
talk about India’s fight against
#CoronaVirus
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If you stand with proper posture, shoulders back and neck straight, the basin collarbones will disappear. लड्डू जैसे मत बैठो!
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A glimpse of legal history: Dad
@VivekKatju
writes about being in Court for the Raj Narain judgment, which led to the Emergency being declared.
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Thank YOU
@manuraj1983
for this ray of sunshine in these gloomy times!
This case raised challenges beyond the strict legal domain for me & my team of young lawyers.
Though the case is still not final, it gives me a lot of hope to see how the judiciary has responded with humility and heart.
Thank you, as always,
@arundhatikatju
for your guidance.
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Physical court again and I’m not sure what is more stressful: accused might go to jail/Covid/traffic jams
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What’s the best book you read in 2020?
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Delighted to be on this list of women I'm in awe of myself: who have raised their voices and brought about such great change. Thanks
@WLAHarvard
. I'll see you in Boston on Tuesday!
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Cake was delish! Thank you all for the wishes :)
@MenakaGuruswamy
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Perhaps the only thing worse than actually being in the dentist’s chair is being in the waiting room listening to the drilling.
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This is a sign if there ever was one. We bump into
@anjaligopalan
on our way back to Delhi the day before the
@NavtejJohar
judgment is pronounced. Change is coming.
@MenakaGuruswamy
#Section377
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ज़फ़र आदमी उसको ना जानिएगा
हो वह कितना ही साहब-ए-फ़ेहेम-ओ- ज़क़ा
जिसे ऐश में याद-ए-ख़ुदा ना रहा
जिसे तैश में ख़ौफ़-ए-ख़ुदा ना रहा।
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Way back in February (feels like another world)
@MenakaGuruswamy
and I spoke about
#lgbt
rights and
#samesexmarriage
in India at the
@OxfordUnion
. Now, with COVID19, LGBT people need rights and protections more than ever.
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Why do people wear their masks under their noses or in their chins or NOT AT ALL? So stressful.
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India is not the US where institutions will hold. Here poverty means migrant labour dying on rail tracks. Wish she had talked about the specific protections being suspended instead of focusing mostly on wages.
States have already started dismantling some labour regulation, and my arguments on why this is a step in the right direction. 1/n
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Baby litchi plant, first plant I’ve ever managed to grow. :)
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Apparently airlines have started ‘flights to nowhere’ during the pandemic. Hmm. Kind of like going for a drive just to get out of the house?
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Hmm...am I a senior teenager or just an old person?
@MenakaGuruswamy
is definitely young...and more fun than me at any rate ;) Really looking forward to this conversation with
@drprasadraj
on the 19th.
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The Indian Psychiatric Society
@IndianPsychiat1
is unequivocal that ‘there is no scientific evidence that S/O can be altered by any treatment and that any such attempts may in fact lead to low self esteem and stigmatization of the person’.
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“I am what I am, so take me as I am.”
06.09.2018
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@HardeepSPuri
How many times are women assaulted on planes - touched, brushed against, or worse? Or men getting drunk and misbehaving on int’l flights? Is there a protocol to put the assailant on a no-fly list? This response to
@kunalkamra88
is ridiculous.
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Does your person know when you’re hangry
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I write about rape myths and fair trial in today’s
@IndianExpress
: Why scrutiny of survivor’s sexual history in rape trials, as in Tarun Tejpal case, infringes on her right to fair trial
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Respect !
Happy International Women’s Day!
The woman who inspires me the most is Dutee Chand. Yes. I inspire myself!
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The
#nls1997
batch threw a party for the 5 members in their class who have become Senior Advocates. <3
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"I realized after a 1-on-1 interaction with the Petitioners that it was I (us) who has to set off on a journey of understanding them and accepting them and shed our notions and not they who have to turn themselves inside out to suit our notions of social morality and tradition."
#Thread
#Pride2021
Today, Justice N Anand Venkatesh of Madras High Court has guidelines with regard to cases pertaining to LGBTQIA+ persons (to State and Union Governments).
I believe these will have a tremendous impact on how law deals with queer communities:
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"Preventive detention laws are used excessively despite inbuilt safeguards....Adjourning bails and habeas corpus for long periods strikes at the root of the right to liberty."
Sidharth Luthra writes in the Hindustan Times.
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@MenakaGuruswamy
and I are honored to be Grand Marshals for this year's NYC Pride Parade. But the contrast between the two countries could not be more stark: NY, open for a physical parade; India, where Shav-Vahini Ganga is the eulogy for our uncounted dead.
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Coffee and a ‘healthy’ carrot coconut Mysore pak ... happy Diwali everyone :)
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I write in today's
@IndianExpress
: Rather than encouraging workers to return by securing wages and improving working conditions, the amendments introduced by the states are removing basic labour law protections.
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Hopefully more HCs and the SC will follow.
[Big Breaking] For The First Time In The History of India A High Court Starts Live-streaming of Court Proceedings Via
@YouTube
Gujarat HC Live-streams the proceedings of Chief Justice's Court in YouTube
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Some days virtual court takes years off your life.
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'Legitimacy Of Relationships Is Of No Consequence Viz-a-viz Their Right To Life And Liberty': P & H HC Grants Police Protection To Same-Sex Live-in Couple [Read Order]
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Amidst the gloom, saw
#ShubhMangalZyadaSaavdhan
and loved it. It hit all the issues - violence, family, pressure to marry - while laughing with
#lgbtq
Indians but not at them. Thanks
@ayushmannk
@Neenagupta001
@maanvigagroo
@raogajraj
🌈
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Madam Vice President
As a woman,
@KamalaHarris
is making me really happy right now! That is the sound of a glass ceiling coming down.
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This! Still love it !
Mr. Keshav Suri: The Catalyst of Change 🏳️🌈
A relentless advocate who shattered barriers and championed love and equality. The determination of all petitioners rewrote history, decriminalizing Section 377 in India. Thank you, Mr. Suri, for your unwavering courage! 🏳️🌈
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I wrote in yesterday's
@IndianExpress
@ieopinion
about the US Supreme Court's new affirmative action judgment and the effect it will have on American business and politics.
#AffirmativeAction
#SCOTUS
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Sunday morning: four rounds of the neighbourhood park followed by a cup of tea and an Ironman laddoo ;)
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I write in the TOI: One year after freedom: How are LGBTs faring today, since Section 377 was struck down by the Supreme Court?
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How caste works in our elite educational institutions. "In the course of the conversation one of my batch mates very casually remarked “Yaar, yeh SC kaise aajate hain iss college mein?” Must-read.
@SBAnlsiu
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No words.
As the coronavirus pandemic devastates India, the government has announced it will draft final year medical students to help tackle a shortage of medical staff, CNN's
@ClarissaWard
reports.
Graphic Warning: Some images may be disturbing.
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Really looking forward to this! Talking to Gandhinagar Queer Pride tomorrow. :)
Organizing an online interactive session with
@MenakaGuruswamy
and
@arundhatikatju
The topic of discussion is the 'Legal Rights of the LGBTQ+ Community'.
The session will be live-streamed on our Facebook Page:
#pridemonth
#pride2021
#pride
#legal
#law
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Kudos to
@manuraj1983
representing the two young women in this case.
Same-Sex Relationships- "I Am Trying To Break My Own Preconceived Notions" Madras High Court Judge
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The Constitution protects freedom of choice in matters of dress, recognizing it as a form of self expression - protected under Art. 19(1)(a) & 21 - free speech and rt to life. Keep going Kaushal!
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Do your real thoughts come out on Twitter?
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Some morning inspiration!
“Dr Katju enjoyed the reputation of being one of the greatest case winners which the Allahabad High Court has produced. All this was possible...because of his phenomenal capacity of sifting essential from the non-essential….”
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The bottom line is that this could happen to anyone. I Am
@NidhiRazdan
, Not A Harvard Professor, But...
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Watched
#Article15
last night and couldn't sleep. Frankly couldn't even get myself to watch the whole thing, saved the rest for another day. Art as a mirror to reality.
@ayushmannk
@anubhavsinha
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An amazing sportsperson with an inspirational story. Thanks
@eyolouss
.
@DuteeChand
Dutee Chand's remarkable story - as a comic strip now.
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I have songs from the 90s stuck in my head.
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The honour is mine!
@arundhatikatju
It has been an honour to have Ms. Arundhati Katju as our Keynote Speaker at Malhar Conclave 2019
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What a morning. It will take some time for it to sink in. With
#section377
gone we need a new hashtag...
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The Indian Supreme Court has an opportunity to appoint India's first openly gay judge and implement its own judgment
#Johar
. It's time to break this glass ceiling.
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"India’s violation is part of a larger story of our country. It is not just India’s spine that was broken — it is the spine of the Indian state and the police that is fractured."
Menaka Guruswamy on the Hathras gangrape.
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Preparing to study for a constitutional law exam when the cops enter.
Watch | "They entered our hostels... Is this democracy? What wrong did we do? We were simply protesting": Student recounts police crackdown at
#JamiaMillia
university yesterday.
#CitizenshipAct
#DelhiProtests
#Jamia
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Tell me this is a joke.
Scientific thinking anyone? In the meanwhile series: Ministry funds trial on effect of Gayatri Mantra in treating COVID-19
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