Socio-Legal Review

SLR Forum: Madhur Bharatiya reviews Seema Azad’s prison memoir ‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ as an account of the abysmal state of Indian prisons and seen through the custodial righrs framework as signifying the gap between the existence and realisation of rights.

Our editors Arya Harishankar and Hiranya Gupta sat down with Dr. Ankita Pandey to discuss her new book ‘Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India’. In Part I, she discusses the origins of the book, why she treats allyship as a politics in its own right, and its dilemmas.

In our closing piece for Vol. 21(2), @shefalij1712 reviews Sandhya Fuchs' Fragile Hope, bringing to light legal consciousness, meliorism and the tension between individual justice and movement-based aspirations.

Full review: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/iss2…

For our first Book Review of 21(2), Ammel Sharon reviews Rohit De and Ornit Shani's work, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, investigating the conceptual and historical conditions shaping the "people."
Full Article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/iss2…

In our unique Notes from the Field section for Vol. 21(2),@hamsini_marada writes on practising dissent in the legal classroom through teaching Art.

Full article: repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/iss2…