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Trans and disability rights movements confront common challenges when it comes to the Indian state’s unequal treatment of marginalised bodies in its nationalist project, the judiciary’s liberal legalism, and the emphasis on a Swadeshi jurisprudence. Our Pride Month special explores the possibility of a solidarity of counter-politics.

In an eleven-page order, the Court held the claims to be “ex-facie false, malicious and derogatory” and directed the Union Government to issue a notification under the IT Act requiring all intermediaries to remove the specified URLs within 24 hours.

Biopower, as Michel Foucault explained, is the technology by which the modern State ceased merely punishing bodies and began administering them. Some lives were deemed productive, legible, worth investing in, while others were, in his phrase, “let die,” through the quieter violence of exclusion, exposure and abandonment. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment A...

The petition seeks takedown of YouTube videos, social media posts, and online articles falsely claiming seventy-five judges and Union ministers participated in the Second International Bar and Bench Badminton Championship in London.