Advocate Indira Jaising to reflect on landmark cases in new memoir
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) From winning Rupan Deol Bajaj's molestation case against K P S Gill to arguing for women's right to worship in the Sabarimala case, Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Indira Jaising looks back at her over five decades of life spent on the frontlines of law and activism in her upcoming memoir.
In "The Constitution is My Home", published by HarperCollins India, Jaising explores some of the country's most consequential legal battles and offers "sharp observations on the present, marked as it is by rising Hindu nationalism, a judiciary in retreat and a democracy growing brittle by the day", the publisher announced on Tuesday.
Written in a conversation with feminist publisher and writer Ritu Menon, the book reflects on the cases and causes that have defined Jaising's career, including Mary Roy's fight for equal inheritance; Olga Tellis case, which recognised the right to livelihood for pavement dwellers; Shayara Bano and the challenge to triple talaq; and the compensation case for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy; and the Sabarimala case.
"The history of a nation is also the history of law. But there comes a time when a nation makes a sharp break with its past. The adoption of the Constitution of India was one such moment. I stand here now as a daughter of the Constitution, and I hope that those who read this book will find in it something of value to take away," Jaising said in a statement.
Commissioning editor Isha Banerji said that Jaising takes readers behind the scenes of these "long, arduous battles".
"As a lawyer for over sixty years, Indira Jaising has fought some of India's most landmark cases, each of which has helped transform the rights of citizens. In this memoir-in-conversation, she takes readers behind the scenes of these long, arduous battles, showing how some of the rights we often take for granted were painstakingly argued for and won," she said.
The book, priced at Rs 699, will hit the stands on May 20. PTI MAH MAH BK BK
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