The First Amendment

The Longest Constitution with Priya Mirza

Finally, we are here. Sixteen months after completing the draft of the Constitution of India, the same bunch of people amended three fundamental rights: Articles 15, 19, and 31. This episode, though, focuses on the litigation and changes to Article 19. We also continue with tracking the journey of freedom of expression as well as the birth of the PIL in India’s constitutional jurisprudence. What happens when the state determines the price and the number of pages of newspapers? Tune in and find out!

Reading material:

On the first amendment:

1. Menon, Nivedita (2004), “Citizenship and the Passive Revolution: Interpreting the First Amendment”, Economic and Political Weekly, 39(18), 1812-1819.

2. Singh, Tripurdaman (2021), Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India, New Delhi: Penguin.

3. Liang, Lawrence, 2016, “Free Speech and Expression”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, OUP: New Delhi.

4. Chandrachud, Abhinav, 2017, Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India, New Delhi: Viking.

5. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/243002/

On PIL:

1. Divan, Shyam, (2016),” Public Interest Litigation”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, OUP: New Delhi.

2. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/243002/

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