Sameena Dalwai
Sameena Dalwai
Sameena Dalwai is Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change at Jindal Global Law School. She has an LLM from Warwick and a PhD from Keele University. She has worked as a lawyer with human rights organisations in Mumbai, as well as with NGOs in rural Maharashtra. She writes on caste, gender, sexuality, communalism and the law, and is a newspaper columnist in English and Marathi. Her co-edited anthology of memoirs, Babri Masjid, 25 Years On… was published in 2017.
On August 16, 2005, the Maharashtra government summarily banned dancing by bar girls in Mumbai’s 1,250 dance bars. The amended Bombay Police Act prohibited dancing in any establishment where alco...
Ravi Ahuja
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Hywel Francis
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Ronald L. Meek
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E.V. Ilyenkov
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Rostislav A. Ulyanovsky
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Noam Chomsky
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M.K. Bhadrakumar
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Johanna Wallin
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Cornel West
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Rada Ivekovic
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Burhan Sönmez
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Harbans Mukhia
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Asif Farrukhi
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Rohini Hensman
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Devaki Jain
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne’s College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecture
Madhushree Dutta
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Danish Husain
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