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'Who is Equal': A unique look at equality and its legal complexities

At the base of the book is the author's contention that "there are multiple and often competing visions of what it means to be equal and how best to achieve that goal"

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Who is Equal: The equality code of the constitution

Nayantara Roy

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Who is Equal: The equality code of the constitution  Author: Saurabh Kirpal  Publisher: Penguin Vintage  Pages: 273  Price: Rs 699  “Most of us react angrily if we feel we are being treated unequally. While the rhetoric of equality is often used as a mere slogan by politicians, most people intuitively feel that it captures something truly important about the human essence. Forget academic debates concerning the distribution of government benefits and historic patterns of inequality, even very young children will reject the idea of being treated unequally. Thus equality seems to capture something unique, almost

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