Posters on Manual Scavenging
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Posters on Manual Scavenging

To download the English version, click here.To download the English version, click here.To download the Kannada version, click here.To download the Kannada version, click here ...
Posters - Dalits ownership of agricultural land in Karnataka
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Posters – Dalits ownership of agricultural land in Karnataka

To download the English version, click here.To download the Kannada version, click here ...
Posters - Myth busters regarding caste-based atrocities
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Posters – Myth busters regarding caste-based atrocities

Too often, violence on Dalit communties is dismissed as isolated, non-caste-related, or exaggerated. By presenting documented facts, real incidents, and data, the poster creates awareness about the deep-rooted caste and gender-based discrimination that the Dalit community faces every day. It aims to disrupt dominant narratives that silence survivors and normalize ...
The Illegal Citizen - Course Modules - Sexual Citizenship and Claiming the City

The Illegal Citizen – Course Modules – Sexual Citizenship and Claiming the City

Course on The Illegal Citizen A course that examines the relationship between citizenship, participation and illegality. It consists of two modules. 1. Module on Sexual Citizens This module of the course will seek to understand if there is a sexuality underlying the idea of citizenship. Citizenship is normally framed in abstract ...
2 Day Course on ‘Unpacking Reservations’
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2 Day Course on ‘Unpacking Reservations’

This course offers an outline of the basic concepts underlying within the caste-based quota system. Students will be exposed to the major debates concerning reservations as well as a the role caste has on students. The modules have been designed with college students in mind, but this experience is open ...
In a Field of Pain and Death: Course on Law, Literature and Violence
/ Criminal Law

In a Field of Pain and Death: Course on Law, Literature and Violence

[This was a course offered to final year students at National Law School of India, Bangalore.] “The task of a critique of violence can be seen as that of expounding its relation to law and justice” -Walter Benjamin, Reflections The law and literature movement in the west is now well ...
Single Credit Seminar Course on Human Rights Lawyering: Principles and Practices National Law School of India, 16-20 March 2015
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Single Credit Seminar Course on Human Rights Lawyering: Principles and Practices National Law School of India, 16-20 March 2015

Traditional teaching on human rights focuses on textual traditions such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Bill of Rights or the Constitution and jurisprudence related to the same. In another understanding, Prof. Upendra Baxi notes that human rights are authored by people in resistance and communities in struggle. This ...
Human Rights Lawyering Course on Principles And Practices
/ Constitution

Human Rights Lawyering Course on Principles And Practices

Traditional teaching on human rights focuses on textual traditions such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Bill of Rights or the Constitution and jurisprudence related to the same. In another understanding, Prof. Upendra Baxi notes that human rights are authored by people in resistance and communities in struggle. This ...
Understanding Legal Issues Concerning Competition in Media
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Understanding Legal Issues Concerning Competition in Media

Presentation made by Smarika Kumar on 20 May 2014 at the Mapping the Digital Media in India Roundtable organised by Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi in collaboration with the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia, the Centre for Internet & Society and ...
Understanding the Problem of Piracy: A Perspective From The Issue of Access

Understanding the Problem of Piracy: A Perspective From The Issue of Access

Presentation made by Smarika Kumar at the National Seminar on Copyright organised by National Book Trust and Sahitya Akademi on World Book and Copyright Day in Calcutta University on 23rd April 2014. https://www.scribd.com/presentation/227370776/The-Problem-of-Piracy-A-Perspective-from-the-Issue-of-Access ...