Aditya Krishna

◽️Advocate, Supreme Court of India◽️
Darbhanga || Bangalore || Delhi ◽️ NLSIU 2023 ◽️ CPI-ML (Liberation) ☭

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Wrote something for @Article14live covering what trial courts ought to do in separating grain from chaff - how the difference between material contradictions and rape myths should not be obfuscated.

Give it a read!

[Article 14 @Article14live]

The law allows conviction in sexual violence cases on the sole testimony of a survivor. It also requires proof beyond reasonable doubt

The challenge is balancing both.

@landbreadpeace argues that courts must scrutinise complainants—but not through assumptions about how women are expected to behave after sexual assault

Link 👇

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Just read the petition: hands down one of the poorest drafted petitions: factually incorrect, AI drafted, full of hallucinations, madeup rules and objections, and heavily reliant on inapplicable legal instruments.

The fastest-finger-first petitions need to stop. Have some shame!

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

The petitioners argued that the right to self-identification of gender conferred by the 2014 NALSA judgment cannot be taken away by a statute.
Read more: https://t.co/jKUNOhb8tw
#SupremeCourt #Transgender

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

You "look good" because of your gene pool (caste, race), your nutrition status, your budget for your wardrobe and your cosmetic products, and your time and physical and mental health. None of it is an "achievement". Thank you for attending the seminar.

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[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

The entire idea of pretty privilege [or, its Hohfeldian jural correlative: "ugly no-right"] is not new. It has been an age-old tool of colonialism, patriarchy, caste, and class, to filter what would be desirable and what was supposed to be erased from public view.

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[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

It applies to marriages, applies to social settings, applies to interpersonal relations, and applies to careers. If you are contributing to this "hotness/unhotness" discourse, and then come back to criticise patriarchy/caste, maybe think twice- you are going in circles

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[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Wrote a little something for The Leaflet, about how the Supreme Court has missed the point in Chinthada Anand v. State of Andhra Pradesh.

Kindly give it a read:
https://t.co/yFkRkJD4Ca

[The Leaflet @TheLeaflet_in]

Does conversion legally extinguish #ScheduledCaste status?

Data from Ranganath Misra, Sachar Committee and Mandal Commission reports all testify that caste persists beyond the Hindu community. So what does the #SupremeCourt’s judgment in #ChinthadaAnand mean for millions of Dalit Christians and Muslims in India?

@landbreadpeace examines ✍️: https://t.co/5SPSI32nWn

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

یادِ او، فاقہ کشی، و زکرِ انقلاب
نہ مرگ میسّر مرا و نہ زیست می خواہم

याद-ए-ऊ, फाक़ाकशी व ज़िक्र-ए-इंक़लाब
न मर्ग मयस्सर म'रा व न ज़ीस्त मी ख़्वाहम

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Well said, comrade @akash_del06

Sending Indian workers to work in Israel cuz Palestinians aren't there to work is the 21st century version of गिरमिटिया मजदूरी (indentured labour): a "neo-indenture", if you may

शायद गिरमिटिया मज़दूरी से भी मोदी जी का बहुत पुराना रिश्ता रहा होगा

[Samruddha Bharat Foundation @SBFIndia]

"... the entire alliance with the USA and Israel is basically favoring Indian corporations. Indian workers are being sent in hordes to work in Israel."

~ @akash_del06 (National Councilor, AICCTU) speaks at the launch of India's Tryst with the World.

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

बरजस्ता शे'र ग़ौर फ़रमाएँ -

बादा में क्या रंग हो जब मुँह लगी बस मुँह लगे
अस्ल हासिल रंग है जब मुँह-लगे सिर पर चढ़ें

@saif_ali_0_0 I am really not talking about baada here 😂😂

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Publised a review of "Hum Bharat Ke Log" by @tarunkhaitan & @surbhi_karwa on @thewire_in

A much-needed and timely intervention, an accessible-yet-rigorous engagement with the Indian Constitution through nine essays written in Hindi.

Read the review here:
https://t.co/sYEaj5w1Ce

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Sometimes, I look at myself in the mirror, sleep-deprived, drowned in stimulants on the fourth night in a row, and am reminded of a Hindi idiom we read in school:

"पढ़े फ़ारसी, बेचे तेल"

Maybe, just maybe, learning Farsi was a mistake.

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

@rameshbidhuri भाषा अशुचिता की निंदा भी बिना असभ्य भाषा के नहीं कर पा रहे हैं- transgender समुदाय के विरुद्ध इनकी घृणा स्पष्ट झलक रही है। मैथिली में कहावत है "चालनि दूसय सूप के" - pot calling the kettle black

संसद को अपनी भाषा से भूषित कर चुके हैं, इनको भाषा की शुचिता पर चुप रहना चाहिए।

इति

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

The financial barriers erected by paywalls disproportionately burden early academicians, underpaid RAs, and the lesser-endowed students, engaging in rent-seeking behaviour with both the producers and users of the said knowledge.

@shaileebasu and I write for @IndianExpress

[Shailee @shaileebasu]

Our op-ed in @IndianExpress looks at the Delhi High Court’s recent injunction directing the blocking of Sci-Hub.

We argue that Sci-Hub cannot be equated with a “rogue website.” Its use by students and researchers falls within the fair dealing protections of the Copyright Act, and it plays a crucial role in widening access to knowledge.

By branding it as a “rogue website”, the HC risks shutting the door on marginalised students, early-career academics, and researchers who already face steep barriers to information.

Read here: https://t.co/VmMmVXEIJC

@landbreadpeace

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

@clifroz speaks:
"How much can I say, is enough- that I have done, or I am doing something to contribute? There is no easy answer to that."

[TheNewsMinute @thenewsminute]

What is ‘enough’ when it comes to genocide in Gaza? Where does CPI(ML) stand on Russia-Ukraine conflict? Beyond elections, what does battle against fascism involve? Tune into this week’s What's Your Ism, with @SudiptoMondal and Clifton D Rozario.

Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/QSIheWZDRa

Apple: https://t.co/AhdoSaPbKK

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

I was reluctant to make any comment on this for too long, but was suddenly reminded in the middle of the night that Baba used to say this about shameless people:

"एकाम् लज्जाम् परित्यज्य, सर्वत्र विजयी भवेत्"

[By losing one thing- your shame, you can be victorious everywhere.]

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

@mathur_vaishali Interested

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

@prabhatkhabar Bringing to your notice that one of your Bureau Chiefs Kumar Ashish is, subsequent to the honour killing incident in DMCH, openly posting videos encouraging violent parental control in re: the marriage of adults, and further mocking the wife of the deceased.
Shame!

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Delegation of @cpimlliberation led by @Dipankar_cpiml, also visited the affected slums where the Bengali-speaking workers were living, to conduct fact-finding and speak with the people who were at the recieving end of the state-enabled exodus.

[Aditya Krishna @landbreadpeace]

Guragon is in a crisis & it is not that your garbage isn't being taken out. Crisis is a xenophobic state-enabled mass exodus of the Bengali-speaking working classes.

Please read the report by @AilajHq at https://t.co/836A24yrhZ

[Migrant Solidarity Network @msn_rights]

AILAJ @AilajHq explains why the MHA guidelines that led to the recent brutal and highly discriminatory verification drive directed against Bangla speaking (mainly Muslim) migrant workers are ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

https://t.co/tiqwJobL63