Anindita Mukherjee

"Anindita takes ordinary experiences and interactions and transforms them with the palette of her deeply aesthetic response to the shape and sound of words, meanings, effects. With individual letters of the alphabet and punctuation marks, almost as much as words and sentences, she arranges her poems with cadences and images that are sometimes startling, and inimitably her own."- Prof. Brinda BoseAnindita Mukherjee will soon move to the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta for her doctoral studies. She is a bilingual writer, a post-graduate (MA) in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 2021, Anindita was a summer fellow at the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, London. She is preparing to present her research work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2022.

This book on constructing a legal right to housing in India seeks to achieve three ends: first, examine the costs incurred in translating a moral right into the language of the law; second, unpack the ways in which existing law and policy impact the realisation of the right to housing and situate any attempt to legally guarantee the right within this context; and finally, begin thinking through the many complexities that will arise should the right be articulated within the law. A comprehensive chronology of central housing law and policy provides the descriptive background for this analytical text, while also acting as a rich introductory resource on the subject. Asserting a need as a right and then seeking legislative recognition for the right is a formula often used in rights struggles. This book takes a critical look at this process, in order to facilitate informed engagement with the law.