Justice on Paper: Why Public Policy Still Fails Rural Women
When I first stepped into a remote village in Rajasthan for a legal literacy camp, I thought I
carried something powerful — knowledge of the law. I believed the law, especially Public
Interest Litigation (PIL), could open doors for those who had always been shut out. But what I
didn’t expect was the silence that followed when I asked a group of rural women if they had ever heard of PIL.
