DESIRE AND ITS DISCONTENTS: QUEER POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

DIPIKA JAIN is Professor of Law, Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Clinical Legal Education), and the Director of the Centre for Justice, Law and Society at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India. She served as a visiting faculty member at the Transnational Law Institute at Kings College London from 2017-2020. Her research was cited by the Supreme Court in the landmark decision of Navtej Johar v. Union of India (2018). In 2018, she was designated the first Research Professor at JGLS. In 2020, her research was cited in the legislative debate on abortion laws in the Indian Parliament. She has published in several prestigious journals, law reviews, and compendia internationally, and her work can be found at https://jgls.academia.edu/DipikaJain. She has consulted for the UNDP, Centre for Reproductive Rights (New York), ARROW, and IPAS Development on Reproductive Justice, Digital Health and Family Law. As the Director of CJLS, she has addressed various barriers in access to justice for marginalized persons in India. OISHIK SIRCAR is Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School, and an associate member of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School. Oishik is the author of Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge University Press, 2024). With Dipika Jain, Oishik has previously co-edited New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (Zubaan, 2017). With Debolina Dutta, Oishik is the co-director of the award-winning documentary film We Are Foot Soldiers (PSBT, 2010).