Big Tech dominance is the talk of the town. But how do hardware markets affect these monopolies? In the first episode of ALTRnative Perspectives, we take a deeper look at the materials that make up emerging technologies, and how the markets for those materials work.

With Suthirth Vaidya, co-founder and CEO of Predible, a healthcare AI startup, we tackle the history of semiconductors, contemporary semiconductor markets, and new mergers that will affect the development of AI for a long time.

With Anish Radhakrishnan, a journalist with People's Dispatch, we talk about the recent coup in Bolivia, and how Elon Musk's ambitions with lithium may have paved the way for this imperialist aggression. This conversation will take you through an underexplored dimension of new technology's global dominance.

ALTRnative Perspectives is a podcast by the Centre for Applied Law and Technology Research, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. This first episode has been developed by Jai Vipra.

In this special musical episode of Justify Season 2, hear through conversation and song from Sambhaji Bhagat on the award-winning feature film 'Court', on Ambedkar and lok shahiri, experiences with the law and justice system, and ruminations on the state of the nation.

Bhagat is a Dalit activist and lokshahir who composed the music for 'Court' which takes a deep dive into the operation of India’s police and criminal justice system marked by delays, apathy, and high-handedness.

Watch out for Vidhi's legal quiz, CLATTR, at the end of the episode, and stand a chance to win an Amazon voucher. Write in your answer and feedback on the episode to [email protected].

Episode - 1: Introduction to Feminist Urbanism

Host: Sneha Visakha;

Edited by: Resonance Studios, Bangalore;

Intro Music: Wehrmut by Godmode;

Outro Music: Opheliea's Blues by Audionautix;

TW - Broad references to violence and unsafety in cities

In the introductory episode of The Feminist City podcast series, we explore why we should look at cities from a feminist perspective. How is space produced? What produces safety in cities? What is the relationship between safety and urban planning? What is feminist urbanism? What does this approach entail? What do we understand by feminist utopias?

For background reading, we recommend perusing some of the literature and videos provided below.

Readings

Sultana’s Dream, Begum Rokeya Sakhawat, 1905

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html

(Highly recommend you read this before listening to the episode!)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

http://www.petkovstudio.com/bg/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Death-and-Life-of-Great-American-Cities_Jane-Jacobs-Complete-book.pdf

How to Build a Non-Sexist City, Dolores Hayden

https://adlc.hypotheses.org/files/2016/01/Hayden_What-Would-a-Non-Sexist-City-Be-Like-Speculations-on-Housing-Urban-Design-and-Human-work-1980.pdf

Why Loiter? By Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan & Shilpa Ranade

https://penguin.co.in/book/why-loiter/, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/globalcityliterature/term2/why_loiter_radical_possibilities_for_ge_1.pdf

For our more enthusiastic listeners,

The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre

https://myweb.fsu.edu/jjm09f/1%20Final%20Project%20Materials/lefebvreintro.html

Reading Law Spatially, Dr. Antonia Layard (on legal geography)

(draft paper) http://antonialayard.com/s/Reading-Cases-Spatially.docx

Videos

What is feminist urbanism? Col·lectiu Punt 6, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI4TOCPMMBA

Why Loiter? Dr. Shilpa Phadke, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgGNv5t92A

The Feminist City, Dr. Ellie Cosgrave, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkB7afesco

Gender Perspectives in Urban Planning, Dr. Ana Falú, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sop4fqc2NV8

Want to get in touch? Email [email protected].

The growing rift between big tech and free media has often been seen as killing print journalism. What does the future hold for news in India in the times of Facebook domination? Is this a point of no return for print media?

In the third episode of Justify Season 2, Dr Arghya Sengupta discusses these questions and the possible reforms with Vidhi's Jai Vipra and Aniruddh Nigam.

Watch out for Vidhi's legal quiz, CLATTR, at the end of the episode, and stand a chance to win an Amazon voucher. Write in your answer and feedback on the episode to [email protected].

In the podcast series, The Feminist City, we think about the city, explore our relationships with it and examine exclusions within it from a feminist perspective. In paying attention to the big, small and mundane aspects of urban existence, we hope to centre the everyday lives of women, gender and sexual minorities in critically engaging with the city. This is an attempt to delve into what it means for a city to be built on feminist principles, to cultivate feminist imagination and explore pathways to realise it collectively. In this series, we speak to people who think about cities, are invested in feminist politics, and engage themselves in the never-ending task of imagining and realising equitable cities. This is based out of Bangalore, Karnataka.

The Feminist City is hosted by Sneha Visakha, Research Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Karnataka. Sneha has a background in law and liberal arts, and is interested in cities, feminist politics and strongly believes in (inter)disciplinary convergences. You can write to her at [email protected] or reach out to her at @magicanarchist (Twitter).

Live reporting of court cases has become a common practice by Indian media today. Reporting from courts can only be a good thing given how little people understand about courts; but what if the reporting itself is inaccurate? How do we balance the fairness of the hearing with the requirement of free reporting and live tweeting? 

In the second episode of Justify Season 2, Arghya Sengupta speaks with Karan Tripathi of Live Law, and Apurva Vishwanath of The Indian Express on these topics.

Watch out for Vidhi's legal quiz, CLATTR, at the end of the episode, and stand a chance to win an Amazon voucher. Write in your answer and feedback on the episode to [email protected].

The correct answer for the CLATTR question in the episode 'Free Speech in India' is the phrase 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' in 'Friends of Voltaire' by Evelyn Beatrice Hall. The winner is Lekhashree LK from NIT Durgapur.

Is speech in India actually free? - In the first episode of Season 2 of Justify, Vidhi's podcast on law and politics in India, Dr Arghya Sengupta discusses this question with Justice Jasti Chelameswar, former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and Tripurdaman Singh, author of 'Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India'.

The episode looks at the historical attitude of governments towards free speech and explores whether its restriction through bans, censorship, and criminal cases is a recent phenomenon. Also discussed is India's law on hate speech and whether it is adequate.

Watch out for Vidhi's legal quiz, CLATTR, at the end of the episode, and stand a chance to win an Amazon voucher. Write in your answer and feedback on the episode to [email protected].

Tune into a conversation between Dr. Arghya Sengupta and Vidhi's Research Fellows Jinaly Dani & Pranay Modi as they discuss the legal aspects of Kashmir's exercise of autonomy. Participate in the quiz to win a gift voucher.

Tune into a conversation between Dr. Arghya Sengupta and Bibek Debroy as they critically analyse the federal structure of India in terms of tax and revenue; and discuss the Centrally Sponsored Scheme, Planning Commission, Seventh Schedule and the possibility of reorganisation of states.

Participate in the quiz to win a gift voucher.

On the eleventh episode of Justify: The Common Law and Other Things ft. Professor Shivprasad Swaminathan

Round Up important cases from February including the Sabarimala reference and a preventive detention case from the J&K High Court [starts at 1:25]

Deep Dive into the common law and what noted jurists have had to say about it [starts at 11:16 ]

Listen in to a Tete-a-tete with legal philosopher Professor Shivprasad Swaminathan on the nature of the common law. Understand what he means by the proposition that ‘knowing’ the common law is more akin to an aesthetic sense than scientific knowledge [starts at 14:07]

As always, write to us at [email protected] with the answer in our legal quiz CLATTER, and stand a chance to win a thousand rupee Amazon voucher.