Phoolan Devi and Privacy

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">What is the ‘truth’ about ‘us’? Phoolan Devi discovered a movie allegedly based on the ‘truth’ about her, distorted her life completely. This episode of <em>The Longest Constitution </em>progresses in its journey of mapping the constitutional right to privacy. We look at the contest over truth, between Phoolan Devi and Shekhar Kapoor and observe how the Constitution is a living text, interpreted and expanded upon over time. On the question of PIL, we uncover the class conflict in the reshaping of Delhi in the 1990s and take a parting look at electoral bonds. </p><p><strong>On Phoolan Devi and privacy: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Bhatia, Gautam, 2016, Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: OUP. Chapter 8. </p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><a href="http://arundhati-roy.blogspot.com/2004/11/great-indian-rape-trick-i.htmlhttps://thewire.in/politics/bjp-congress-electoral-bonds-2019-20-donations-political-parties" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://arundhati-roy.blogspot.com/2004/11/great-indian-rape-trick-i.htmlhttps://thewire.in/politics/bjp-congress-electoral-bonds-2019-20-donations-political-parties</a></p></li></ol><p><strong>On electoral bonds: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><u><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/electoral-bonds-rti-arun-jaitley-law-ministry_in_5e2eccb1c5b6d6767fd8733f?utm_hp_ref=in-electoral-bonds" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/electoral-bonds-rti-arun-jaitley-law-ministry_in_5e2eccb1c5b6d6767fd8733f?utm_hp_ref=in-electoral-bonds</a></u></p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Sondhi, Aditya, “Elections”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), <a href="https://oxcon.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198704898.001.0001/law-9780198704898" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">T</a><em><a href="https://oxcon.ouplaw.com/view/1