What happened when KPS Gill, a ‘supercop’ slapped an IAS officer’s derrière, or bottom? For decades, sexual harassment was not seen as a crime and it took Rupen Bajaj Deol seventeen years of struggle to challenge this. But what did the court say? And why has social justice for the Other Backward Classes (OBC’s) differed from state to state and why is this contentious? This episode of The Longest Constitution tackles caste and gender hierarchy at the workplace.

Reading material:Christophe Jaffrelot, 2003, India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India, Columbia University Press.
‘Rupan Deol Bajaj talks about the sexual harassment case she won against KPS Gill’, Available at: ( https://scroll.in/video/839715/watch-rupan-deol-bajaj-talks-about-the-sexual-harassment-case-she-won-against-kps-gill )
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Who determines the truth? The victim or the courts? This episode of The Longest Constitution looks at the many ‘sites’ of work, from fields to offices and examines why and how the powerful must be restrained from abusing their position. We look at Bhanwari Devi’s march to justice which led to the framing of India’s first guidelines of sexual harassment at the workplace in 1997. We also look at the state’s obligations and commitments to social justice and how that could have multiple meanings.

Reading material: Anand Teltumbde, 2011, The Persistence of Caste the Khairlanji Murders and India’s Hidden Apartheid, Zed Books.

Radha Kumar, 1993, The history of doing: an illustrated account of movements for women's rights and feminism in India (1800-1990), Verso Books.
Legal cases and laws: Balaji vs State of Mysore, 1962K.C. Vasanth Kumar vs State Of Karnataka, 1985
Vishakha Guidelines against Sexual Harassment at the workplace, 1997, Available at: ( http://www.nitc.ac.in/app/webroot/img/upload/546896605.pdf )
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Equality of opportunity is just one dimension of access to work, but what about dignity at the workplace? Article 17 of the Constitution of India states quite briefly: ‘Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.’ And yet, untouchability was not defined because it was assumed that it is familiar to every citizen. It took another five years though to draft a law to penalize untouchability and its practice. How efficient is this law? And how have courts interpreted caste-based discrimination? All this and more on this episode of The Longest Constitution.

Legal provisions, laws, and cases: Article 17 of the Constitution of IndiaThe Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955SC/ST Atrocities Act, 1989 N M Thomas vs State of Kerala, 1976
Reading material: Shukla, Rakesh, ‘To Remove Caste Bias From the Judicial System, Judges Need to Self-Correct’, Available at ( https://thewire.in/caste/caste-bias-judicial-system )
Bhatia, Gautam, ‘Reservations, Equality and the Constitution – III: State of Kerala v N.M. Thomas and the Transformation of Equality’, Available at: ( https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/reservations-equality-and-the-constitution-iii-state-of-kerala-v-n-m-thomas-and-the-transformation-of-equality/ )
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Is discrimination visible? Or just felt?

In this episode of The Longest Constitution, we look into the history of caste-based discrimination and why our constitution is committed to overcoming that. And most importantly how from B.R. Ambedkar’s experiences to questions about the necessity for reservations, we look into how the constitution proposes to undo caste-based discriminations and the journey towards that goal.
Omvedt, Gail, Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anti caste Intellectuals (Navayana, 2008)
Bhatia, Gautam, ‘Reservations, Equality, and the Constitution – I: Origins’, ( https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/reservations-equality-and-the-constitution-i-origins/ )
Biswas, A.K, “The making of the first SC and ST IAS officers” ( https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/06/the-making-of-the-first-sc-and-st-ias-officers%E2%80%A8/ )
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What’s India’s foreign service got to do with an officer's marital status? A lot, apparently! If you are a woman. Laws, regulations and rules are often sexist. But our constitution guarantees us the right against discrimination. This episode of the Longest Constitution looks at gender discrimination in three different areas: diplomacy, aviation and the makeup industry. We look at how women have challenged these regulations using the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India.

- ( https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-supreme-courts-make-up-artists-decision-and-its-discontents/ )
- ( https://fiftytwo.in/story/ambassador/ )
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Do you work? What is work anyway! And does the constitution work for you?

In the second season of The Longest Constitution, we are exploring everyday issues of work and rights around work, from maternity leave to casteist slur, disability and harassment at the workplace to defining what the workplace is. We are looking at people’s journeys, collective and individual to assert the fundamental right to a safe workplace. From manual scavenging to air-hostesses, from Members of Parliament to butchers, we are unraveling the rights at the workplace, to what we can do and absolutely must not tolerate.

This season is about finding out what it means to be fair. At the workplace.
Not lovely.

This podcast about the Constitution of India isn't about being lovely. It is asking difficult questions. To ourselves, partners, colleagues and boss. Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode!

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Who decides your gender? Your body or your mind? Or the state? This episode follows the NALSA judgment 2014 which recognized the third gender and more importantly affirmed the right to self-affirm one’s gender. But what did the government do? We track the success of Tiruchi Shiva’s bill to protect the rights of transgenders and the disappointment with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and look at the road ahead.

Parul Chandra, “Why Tiruchi Siva moved a Private Member's Bill to ensure rights for transgender people”, ( https://scroll.in/article/723205/why-tiruchi-siva-moved-a-private-members-bill-to-ensure-rights-for-transgender-people )
Gautam Bhatia, “The Constitutional Challenge to the Transgender Act”, ( https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/the-constitutional-challenge-to-the-transgender-act/ )
Susan Ninan, “Love is a Human Right”, ( https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/32303155/india-sprinter-dutee-chand-tells-coming-story )

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What does a person look like? And what does our Constitution have to say about personhood and sexuality? Personhood legally means a rights-bearing body. But not all bodies have rights unless the law recognizes them as persons. This episode of The Longest Constitution looks into the colonial criminalization and marginalization of the transgender community, and the journey to recognizing their fundamental rights, in the historic NALSA vs. Union of India judgment, 2004.

- ( https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/no-law-which-prohibits-sex-change-operation-bombay-high-court-says-in-bidhan-barua-case-481081 )
- ( https://translaw.clpr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Nalsa.pdf )
“5 Questions: Tiruchi Siva, man behind Rights of Transgender Persons Bill” - ( https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/5-questions-tiruchi-siva-man-behind-rights-of-transgender-persons-bill/ )
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What’s wrong with same-sex love? Nothing! Sexual minorities have the same right as everyone else - to love, to marry, and live together with the privacy and dignity guaranteed to all citizens of this country. This episode of The Longest Constitution looks at Gandhi, same-sex love, and why a few of our laws need to be changed to accommodate the LGBTQIA. And how we are all on our own journey to discover what swarajya means to us.

Tarunabh Khaitan, “Reading Swaraj into Article 15” - ( http://nujslawreview.org/2016/12/03/reading-swaraj-into-article-15-a-new-deal-for-all-minorities )
- ( https://theprint.in/opinion/have-you-noticed-how-baba-ramdev-went-silent-on-section-377/112824/ )
- ( https://issuu.com/orinamwebber/docs/same-sexmarriageandotherqueerrelationshipsinindia )
- ( https://lawsisto.com/legalnewsread/ODYzMg==/Allahabad-High-Court-orders-police-protection-for-same-sex-couple-under-threat-due-to-sexual-orientation )

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And who invites trolls to a wedding? Nobody! And yet the Special Marriage Act, India’s only civil marriage act adds to the pressure of a young couple marrying out of the bounds of their religion by inviting objections to their marriage, even before it takes place. In this episode of The Longest Constitution, looks into the unconstitutional violations of privacy, liberty and dignity under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 and how the recent Allahabad judgment is a step forward towards constitutional freedom.

“30-day notice period not mandatory under Special Marriage Act: Allahabad High Court”, ( https://indianexpress.com/article/india/30-day-notice-period-not-mandatory-under-special-marriage-act-allahabad-high-court-7145476/ )
“30-day prior notice in Special Marriage Act is fair and reasonable, Centre tells Delhi HC”,( https://scroll.in/latest/986478/30-day-prior-notice-in-special-marriage-act-is-fair-and-reasonable-centre-tells-delhi-hc )
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