In 1979, four law professors wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India. Published in newspapers. Addressed to the highest court in the land. That letter changed India's rape law forever. One of those professors is my guest today.Professor Upendra Baxi is 86 years old. He is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Warwick and Delhi, former Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, and the man who invented Social Action Litigation — the legal tool that gave India's poorest citizens direct access to the Supreme Court. His books have been cited by the International Court of Justice. He published a new column ten days before we recorded this.In this conversation, we cover:→ Why India's justice system has 55 million pending cases — and who is actually responsible→ Why he calls "fair globalisation" an oxymoron — and coins the term "Baxi-moron"→ The Bhopal gas tragedy: what really happened in court, why the victims never got justice, and what that tells us about corporate power→ Ambedkar's Articles 17, 23 and 24 — and why the Dalit labour movement is missing from every global "decent work" conversation→ Why the word "Justice" has almost disappeared from global governance — and who benefits from that erasure→ AI, gig workers, and what the ILO has no answer for→ What gives him hope — and what worries him most about Indian law in 2026