“I do not understand how private schools claim that the entry of disadvantaged children will dilute merit; all that it will do is to breach the complacency and conceit of privilege.”
“Where would we in the world be without dalit protest poetry, black protest poetry or LGBTQ protest poetry, we would be equally impoverished without what has risen as the Miya poetry,”
“The idea of India was not a quest for sameness, but a respect for difference.”
“We are unmaking the idea of India, one lynching at a time, one hate speech at a time, and one silence followed by another silence. Silence is enabling these crimes to continue,”
Books
Talks and Discussions
Archive Lecture Series: Can a State Love its People? Reflections on governance
Source: BLiSC India
Published on: Aug 13, 2021
Harsh Mander on Fr Stan Swamy, activism, terror laws & the danger of being good I Shoma Chaudhury
Source: Enquiry with Shoma Chaudhury
Published on: July 21, 2021
Webinar Series: Vaccine Inequality and the Neoliberal Order
Source: Karwan e Mohabbat
Published on: July 21, 2021
Judicial Interventions
Right to Life of Migrant Workers.
Writ petition in public interest under Article 32 of the Constitution of India for the enforcement of the fundamental right under article 21 of the Constitution of India, of migrant workers who are severely affected by the 21 day nation-wide lockdown ordered by the government on the 24b of March 2O2O to take effect from the 25ft of March 2020to contain the spread of COVID- 19 epidemic in the country.