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Ajitesh Singh
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What would it take for women to not merely enter Indian law, but to govern it? To sit on the bodies that set its rules, shape its culture, and decide who belongs?
In 2021, only 9 of 441 elected representatives across India's State Bar Councils were women. So women advocates did what they knew best; they went to Court.
For over a decade since the POSH Act’s enactment, women lawyers across the country have remained unaccounted; yet within the structure of the law, there is much the government and the Bar Council of India can do.
While a spate of measures, including the Supreme Court’s recent intervention, have ensured wider women’s representation in the bar, to truly avoid perpetuating cycles of privilege, women from marginalized communities must be able to access emerging opportunities.
In his foreword to The Leaflet’s Republic Day Special Issue 2026, Senior Advocate Mohan Katarki situates constitutional discourse around 75 years of the Constitution in an era of ideological contestation.
We, at The Leaflet, synthesised nearly thirty pieces of public-facing short-form commentary, over forty hours of panels and speeches, and five books – all commemorating the Constitution and Supreme Court at 75 – to read between the lines of how India’s commentators debated its constitutional legacy.
Our Constitution Day Special Issue poses one simple question: Without morally conceding to executive primacy in appointments, is there a way to imagine a more democratic future to how our judges are appointed?
12 years after his retirement, Justice Chandru recalls the many twists and turns that preceded his appointment as a judge of the Madras HC, and what they revealed about the Collegium system’s deepest problems.