About the Book: Constitution Is My Home: Conversations on a Life in Law
Few lawyers have shaped Indias constitutional landscape as consistently and
fearlessly as Indira Jaising. For over five decades, she has led some of the
countrys most consequential legal battles, compelling the law to reckon with the
realities of gender, inequality, state violence and institutional neglect. In
The Constitution Is My Home, Jaising looks back upon a life spent on the
frontlines of law and activism. In conversation with Ritu Menon, she reflects on
the cases and causes that have defined her career: Mary Roy and the fight for
equal inheritance; Rupan Deol Bajaj