Rohin Bhatt

Nov 23, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Rohin Bhatt

B R Ambedkar noted that the Constitution of India was not a mere lawyers’ document – “It is a vehicle of life and its spirit is always the spirit of age.” Seventy-five years since the adoption of the Constitution, its living text continues to guide India along the vision of its founders. But these are also times when the constitutional spirit is increasingly in conflict with reactionary narratives that undermine the tenets of the document.

Oct 23, 2024 | scroll.in | Rohin Bhatt

We are at a phase in the queer movement where we have seen that it is increasingly becoming lawyer-centric. For the smallest of issues, people seem to rush to the Supreme Court. What this frequently results in is half-baked petitions, and often damage to the movement itself. While in any legal discourse on rights in India, the Constitution is a sine qua non, using it as the only weapon that a movement can wield does not serve the purpose.

Oct 21, 2024 | flipboard.com | Rohin Bhatt

2 hours agoGunmen in Mexico have shot dead a Catholic priest who was an outspoken advocate for indigenous rights and who had condemned the violence plaguing his community. Father Marcelo Pérez was killed after celebrating Mass in the southern state of Chiapas on Sunday, the prosecutor's office said. The Jesuit …

Oct 21, 2024 | theprint.in | Rohin Bhatt

Also read: LGBT+ people hide at work, can’t claim queer spaces easily either. Bengaluru fest is freeingWe can, however, avoid this. As I was saying, there is now a new age of social movements and social justice litigation which is informed by a State which is increasingly clamping down on civil society in the form of tax raids, choking funding, jailing dissidents under terror laws, criminalizing any form of dissent, making free speech nearly impossible.

Oct 18, 2024 | governancenow.com | Rohin Bhatt

The Urban Elite v. Union of India: The Unfulfilled Constitutional Promise of Marriage (In)Equality By Rohin Bhatt Penguin, 288 pages, Rs 499Rohin Bhatt, a queer, non-binary lawyer who practices in the Supreme Court, is known for not just activism inside the courtroom but also outside it, along with writing extensively on issues of queer rights and human rights.