Praani has moved to Substack!

[Atreyo Banerjee]

Hi everyone,

The Praani Newsletter has fully migrated to Substack. Going forward, all our newsletters will be published there.

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Two recent pieces are now live.

The Whale, the Code, and the Court looks at sperm whale communication, Project CETI’s work using machine learning to study whale “language,” and what it might mean for legal systems to take bioacoustics seriously as evidence. We ask: if whales learn, share, and vary communication systems across clans and generations, how does law begin to make room for forms of meaning-making that do not translate into human categories?

“I am not supposed to have favourites. But isn’t she the most beautiful gibbon?” is written by Supriya Sankaran. It reflects on what shifted in her perception of gibbons after hearing about individual stories and lives, and what that shift could mean for justice-making in 2026. The piece also stays with a larger question: what might open up if love were treated as a first principle in how we think about law and justice, and how that might reshape our everyday practice of justicemaking.

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Thank you for reading with us.

Warmly, 

Atreyo, Aditi and Bharati