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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Arvind Narrain, "India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance" (Context, 2022)
Description: Arvind Narrain is a lawyer and writer based in Bangalore. He is visiting faculty at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University. He is the co-editor of Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law and co-author of Breathing Life into the Constitution: Human Rights Lawyering in India and The Preamble: A Brief Introduction. He was a part of the team of lawyers that challenged Section 377 of the IPC right from the High Court in 2009 to the Supreme Court in 2018.In 1975, the Indira Gandhi government declared Emergency in India, unveiling an era of State excesses, human right...