Dushyant Arora
The birds on this page sing at your hour.
You can turn it off from the corner, any time.
A lawyer who writes on courts, politics and cinema.
I also do research for filmmakers and non-profits.
Published in.
Selected writing.
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The Distance of a HandCollage after a gouache of a courtesan at her hair, a watercolour of a woman with a pitcher and a Bengal kantha (1800s).DA.26.07 · Sources Medical negligence and expert evidence
The distance between being harmed and proving it.
I wrote about patients whose cases depend on finding a doctor willing to give evidence against another doctor, and why a rare, large compensation award can tell us so little about everyone still trying to be heard.
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The Interval Before DawnCollage after Radha’s hair being dressed (c. 1795), a Pali manuscript (1700s) and Hiroshige’s Moon-Viewing Promontory.DA.26.08 · Sources The hearing before Yakub Memon’s execution
When the time left is part of the argument.
At 3.30 am, the Supreme Court began hearing a plea ahead of Yakub Memon’s scheduled execution at 7 am. I was there. This account follows the arguments, the decisions that brought the case to that night and the questions the hearing left unanswered.
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A Branch Between ThemCollage after a Hikone chintz (1600s), a Tuti-nama page (c. 1560) and a palampore (1700s).DA.26.09 · Sources Main Vaapas Aaunga and Partition
What a border leaves inside a family.
Main Vaapas Aaunga moves between 1947 and 2026. I wrote about the way Partition travels beyond the people who lived through it, into how a family loves, fears and tries to protect its children.
Read it in The Quint
More writing.
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Research for film and television.
I co-founded Authentic Kahaniyan with Chandni. It is where we work with filmmakers on historical and subject research, script review and production references.
About.
I’m a lawyer, writer and research consultant.
My legal background includes work before the Supreme Court of India. Alongside my published writing, I do research for non-profits and pro-bono work.
Books.
I co-edited these two books with Osama Manzar.
Work for the screen.
I contributed additional dialogues to Prahaar.
I’m also working towards screenplays of my own.
Birds of the hour.
The birds you hear on this page are the ones that sing at your hour: dawn, day, dusk or night.
Every call is a real recording, shared openly by the person who made it. When a bird sings, its painting comes up in the corner and its name goes into the notebook here.
Dawn, 5 to 9 in the morning
Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
Black DrongoDicrurus macrocercus
Common IoraAegithina tiphia
Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
Coppersmith BarbetPsilopogon haemacephalus
Greater CoucalCentropus sinensis
- Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
Blue-tailed Bee-eaterMerops philippinus
Brahminy KiteHaliastur indus- Common IoraAegithina tiphia
Red-vented BulbulPycnonotus cafer
Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
- Red-vented BulbulPycnonotus cafer
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
Spotted OwletAthene brama
Black-and-orange FlycatcherFicedula nigrorufa
Brown BoobookNinox scutulata
- Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
- Spotted OwletAthene brama
- Brown BoobookNinox scutulata
Brown Fish-OwlKetupa zeylonensis
Brown Wood-OwlStrix leptogrammica
Indian NightjarCaprimulgus asiaticus
Heard on this visit
Nothing yet. With the birdsong on, the first call comes within a minute.
Write to me.
You don’t need to have the whole thing worked out.
For a writing commission, non-profit research or another collaboration, send me a short note about the work. Include where it will be published or used, and any deadline.
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