Journalism of Courage
Reshaping the Republic
Marking the 75th year of the Constitution, The Indian Express in a weekly series tracks litigants in landmark cases. These are stories of women and men who tested the Constitution, and in doing so, reshaped the republic.
RESHAPING THE REPUBLIC NEWS
Radio news & a dinner party: When bank nationalisation law was ruled ‘unconstitutional’ over unfair compensation
June 05, 2025 12:08 pm
In part 14 of this series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic
An aristocratic missionary and a question of property: When SC put checks on Parliament’s power to tinker with Constitution
May 25, 2025 12:35 pm
In part 13 of this series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic
How a landowner challenged Rajasthan’s land ceiling law to protect his 175 acres — and lost
May 18, 2025 9:18 pm
In part 12 of this series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic
The boy who stood his ground: How Kedar Nath’s acts of defiance shaped sedition law
April 18, 2025 8:24 am
In part 11 of this series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic
A 1954 trip to Pakistan and a passport lost: What led to Abdul Sattar Patel’s landmark six-year battle to prove his Indianness
April 08, 2025 1:15 pm
In part 10 of this series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic.
When a landlord cited right to equality, went to court against a Rs 2 tax on his forest land
March 29, 2025 8:32 am
Moopil Nair’s case was that the land did not give him returns to even match the tax demand
Constitution and the cow: How a 1958 ruling shaped the debate on slaughter bans
March 21, 2025 12:22 pm
Mohammad Hanif Quareshi, from Patna’s Sultanganj, lent his name to a case that negotiated the centuries-old, communally fraught issue of cattle slaughter within the framework of the Constitution
Can religion be regulated by law: Questions raised when Narasu remarried in 1950
March 14, 2025 12:37 am
In this new series, The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic.
'An ordinary criminal': When SC defined equality in union worker's case
March 06, 2025 12:48 pm
Anwar Ali Sarkar was part of a mob of 50 men who attacked a factory in Kolkata in 1949. How his case led to SC providing a framework for Article 14. Part 6 of a series
Who is Champakam Dorairajan, the woman in a nine-yard sari who triggered the First Amendment?
March 01, 2025 2:02 pm
In the 5th part of The Indian Express's ongoing series on 75 years of the Constitution, a look at how an upper-caste homemaker challenged the government's move on quota in educational institutions.
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