Flare: Opinions (Law, Human Rights and Politics) by Ankur Mutreja (digital e reader TXT) 📖

earn huge Dollar/Rupee profits from prostitution but also want to use women as currency, which can be laundered and re-minted almost perpetually; and they are trying to shoot from behind the shoulders of prostitutes. Their motives are clear from the kinds of debates they hold in media: They keep terming prostitution as illegal — but which it is not as per law — and, in disguise of giving dignity to the prostitutes, they want to run industries where women would be labor, capital and goods, all at the same time, but, nevertheless, under the control of the capitalists; they want to make rape an industry. The present BJP Government was expected to help them in their motives, but this soon! That was not expected. I would say this debate has thrown up a very serious challenge before the real women rights activists against the fakesters. They will have to guard against any attempt, however indirect and remote, of the present government to legalize any kind of trafficking and/or industrialization of women. The status quo with respect to provisions restricting formation of prostitute partnerships or even restricting their free individual associations will have to be maintained for the better good of protecting women against their own commodification — in another of my writings, I have said that a prostitute has every right to get married like normal girls but only after leaving the profession, and, here, I reiterate it.

Chapter 1.3: SC/ST Quota in Promotions

(September 2012)

A new debate has emerged on the Indian newscape: Should there be quota in promotions? Incidental to the debate is the legal question: Will the constitutional amendment introduced in the Parliament pass the test of judicial scrutiny? I don’t intend to discuss the second question except to express a prima-facie view that there wouldn’t be any challenge to the Basic Structure of the Constitution by introducing promotions in jobs for the SCs/STs; the logic is simple: the courts wouldn’t look into the discretion of the Legislature to designate the SCs/STs as backwards, and, other than this, there won’t be any challenge to the Basic

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