Menaka Guruswamy – India: My Constitution's Country from menaka Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 32 min 35 sec
✓ Published: 29-Mar-2017

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On January 26, 1950, the world’s largest democracy adopted its Constitution. As a constitutional-rights litigator before India’s Supreme Court, Menaka Guruswamy locates her clients’ claims for justice in the Constitution’s vision for a better India by challenging the British Raj’s sodomy law, by examining alleged large-scale extra-judicial killings by the military, by pushing for dramatic legal reform of the national bureaucracy, and through desegregating exclusive private schools.nnAt