Overview
- Indira Jaising launched The Constitution Is My Home on May 21, 2026 in New Delhi and used the event to cast the Constitution as a personal home that must be actively defended against subtle, non‑textual shifts in power.
- Supreme Court judge B V Nagarathna said divergent thoughts must be permitted as a core democratic value and urged solidarity among women lawyers to expand access within the profession.
- Chief Justice Surya Kant delivered a video message saying the Constitution belongs equally to every citizen and warning it must not become the preserve of those who can afford costly legal processes.
- Jaising criticised judicial deference to the executive, praised recent internal course corrections in the Supreme Court such as the revisiting of the Umar Khalid bail reasoning, and pressed for a stronger organised bar and public collegium transparency.
- Drawing on six decades of cases for women and marginalized people, Jaising framed her book as both memoir and intervention and signalled that renewed public pressure on appointments, legal aid and court culture could follow from the debate the launch stirred.