ABP Network is back with the third edition of its annual ‘Ideas of India’ Summit, featuring the prominent personalities from various fields to understand how issues everyday lives as well as global phenomena that shape the future. The two-day summit is scheduled to be held in Mumbai from February 23 to 24. This year the 'Ideas of India’ Summit aims to bring detailed insights into the news and events that will shape public life nationally as well as globally. For two days, the brightest minds will unravel the complexities behind news and how they impact our everyday lives.
In the event this year, legal luminaries, Senior Supreme Court Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan and Senior Delhi High Court Advocate Saurabh Kirpal will hold a session on Februrary 24 to debate on the topic "How Society Changes? By Mandate or By Man?"
Senior Advocate Sankaranarayanan is well known for his authority in Constitutional law. He along with Senior Advocate K.K.Venugopal had helped draft the Constitution of Bhutan. Sankaranarayanan's arguments on vagueness and liberty were accepted by the Constitutional Bench that heard the challenges to Section 66-A of the IT Act [Shreya Singhal].
Son of a former CJI, Kirpal was a part of a team of lawyers who argued for Sunil Mehra and Navtej Singh Johar among various petitioners before a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court which gave the landmark verdict on decriminalising homosexuality. He also argued for granting legal santity to same-sex marriages.
Kirpal has been a practising lawyer for over two decades and got his undergraduate degree in law from Oxford University. He did his masters in law from Cambridge University, and has also worked at the United Nations, Geneva.
A well known author, Kirpal has written and edited the book ‘Sex and the Supreme Court: How the Law is Upholding the Dignity of the Indian Citizen’, which also contains a collection of writings by legal luminaries like Justice M B Lokur, Justice B D Ahmed and Justice A K Sikri, along with advocates like Mukul Rohatgi, Madhavi Divan, Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju.