Blogs by Amita Dhanda

Certifying Caste Discrimination

by Amita Dhanda on in Human Rights Law
As Rohith Vemulla’s last missive started to catch people’s imagination and his experience of discrimination left people red faced, an excercise in damage limitation was initiated. Rohith, it was said, could not be a victim of caste discrimination because he was not a Dalit. Rohith’s last letter reco...
Sedition or rather disputes surrounding sedition are the flavor of the season. Both in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Hyderabad Central University (HCU) conversations around nation, nationalism, freedom, democracy and dissent have been doing the rounds. There have been demands to amend the IP...