Is color-blindness a disability? And what happened when a color-blind bus driver sought relief under the People with Disabilities Act, 1995? And does a mother necessarily mean a biological mother? How does the Indian constituion regulate Pregnancy and Maternity at work? This episode of The Longest Constitution takes a look at how courts interpret laws, often getting it right and sometimes wrong. Tune in to listen to the story of the government school teacher with twins who applied for maternity leave, but was denied it on the grounds that she ‘already’ had two children. But what does the Maternity Benefits Act, 1961 say? And what does mothering mean, legally?

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Menon, Nivedita, 2012, Seeing Like a Feminist, New Delhi: Penguin https://thewire.in/law/sc-has-backtracked-on-its-ruling-on-level-playing-field-for-visually-impaired

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