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Meghashree Dev

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Found in 708 Collections and/or Records:

Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1979 - 1980

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-33
Abstract Upendra Baxi's "Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India" (SAL) explores how India's Supreme Court transformed into a court for the oppressed post-Emergency, moving beyond elite legal disputes to address mass suffering via SAL (often called PIL), driven by judicial populism, making justice accessible to the marginalized by using letters/petitions as legal standing, but also highlighting challenges like judicial overreach and the gap between promises...
Dates: Publication: 1979 - 1980

Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1985

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-46
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This essay reflects on the emergence of social action litigation in the Supreme Court. Baxi examines how courts began responding to suffering and deprivation through procedural innovation, while also questioning the capacities, limits, and ambiguities of judicial intervention in addressing structural injustice. In Third World Legal Studies Vol 4. No. 1. pg 107-132.

Dates: Publication: 1985

Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1985

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-51
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Published in Country and Area Studies: Asia, Third World Legal Studies, 1985. pg 107-132.

Dates: Publication: 1985

Talk on judicial reforms, 2013

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-12
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Published by India Habitat Centre

Dates: 2013

Talk: Vivekananda international foundation, 2011

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-01
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Published by Rajiv Malhotra

Dates: 2011

Talking point, 2016

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-23
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Published by Lok Sabha TV

Dates: 2016

TALK|Judicial Reforms Panelists: Prof. Upendra Baxi.17th February 2013 - YouTube, 2013

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-06
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TALK | Judicial Reforms' (February 17, 2013): Discussion of necessary reforms in India's judicial system, addressing backlog, access to justice, judicial appointments, accountability, infrastructure, and procedural reforms needed to make justice accessible, timely, and effective. Published by India Habitat Centre

Dates: 2013

‘Teaching as Provocation’ in Amrik Singh (ed), On Being a Teacher, 1990

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Identifier: UB-005-01-02-09
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Published by Konark Publishers, Bengaluru. pg 150-8

Dates: Publication: 1990

“Terror of Performance”, 3 April 2015

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-45
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The review reads Terror and Performance as a probing exploration of terror’s banality, mediatisation, and everyday cruelties beyond “terrorism.” Through performance, law, memory, nonviolence, and sovereignty, Bharucha unsettles state, civil society, and legal certainties, foregrounding human suffering, ethical ambiguity, and interpretive pluralism. In Frontline

Dates: Publication: 3 April 2015

“The Absence of Women: What India Can Learn from Kenya”, 7 October 2020

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-145
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In The Indian Express.

Dates: Publication: 7 October 2020