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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