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Development: Between Cliché and Creativity,"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_wdd7D2iQk Shiv Visvanathan Azim Premji University
Jan 20, 2012 Shiv Visvanathan speaks on "Development: Between Cliché and Creativity," as part of the Azim Premji University Public Lecture Series
October 8, 2011
Shiv Visvanathan is Professor of Social Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad. His areas of research interest include Sociology of Science and Technology, Violence and Globalization, Corruption, Sociology of Disasters and Futures. Apart from extensive journal and newspaper publications, his work includes Organizing for Science (1985) and A Carnival of Science (1997), both published by Oxford University Press. He has also co-edited Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption 1947-1997 (1999), published by Banyan Books.

Dr. Ram Puniyani speaks on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj: He wasn’t like Savarkar; BJP spreading lies The Public India  https://youtu.be/Mbg7sc1jlDQ?t=87   Letter of Shivaji to Auranzeb  was not an apology. He was a clever response to escape . 

The concept of ‘intimate association’, encapsulated under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution, https://theleaflet.in/i-enter-indian-soil-and-my-union-is-no-longer-recognised-as-marriage-petitioners-on-the-foreign-marriage-act-on-day-4-of-the-hearing/   Gursimran Kaur Bakshi· April 25, 2023  Senior advocate Anand Grover averred that the argument of the Union government that homosexual unions did not exist in the subcontinent in antiquity is disproved by a study of history and culture of this region. He pointed out that it has been clearly accepted by the court in National Legal Services Authority versus Union of India (2014) that such relationships did exist during the British period. https://youtu.be/qdZNqTia7fE?t=1817

He also presented an interesting example where the marriage between a cis-male and a cis-female is valid. During the subsistence of the marriage, if the cis-male assumes a female gender, the law does not say that the marriage becomes void or voidable.

Senior advocate Geetha Luthra, for the petitioners, raised the question of ‘invisiblisation’ of marriage of non-heteronormative couples married outside and returning to India. Pointing out the term ‘comity’, Luthra argued that India cannot be lagging behind in terms of constitutional comity as it is a violation of the provision on discrimination under Article 15 (prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth) of the Indian Constitution. She also informed the court that most democratic and progressive countries have already recognised non-heteronormative marriages. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZNqTia7fE

Vrinda Grover https://youtu.be/qdZNqTia7fE?t=14147  speaks about the Delhi Public Hearing in marriage equality case.. So well argued.. by vrinda for new imagination of family,, going even beyond non-conjugal intimacies..

Advocate Jayna Kothari similarly argued that most transgender persons have no option but to run away from their homes because of discrimination. In this context, the right to marry is extremely crucial as they are given a right to raise a family that can provide psychological and economic support.