The issue of torture and custodial interrogations have been discussed previously on this blog. In an article in today’s Indian Express titled ‘The Kasab Contradiction’, Vinay...
In an article in the current issue of the Economic & Political Weekly, Animesh Sharma explores the jurisprudential basis of Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the constitutional validity of...
Recent months have seen substantial debate on the Supreme Court’s emerging attitude towards reforming public interest litigation (PIL), especially in light of Justice Katju’s...
Recent terrorist attacks throughout India have seen the BJP severely criticize the Congress approach to tackling terrorism. One issue that has been highlighted, especially by Narendra Modi, has been...
The argument that engaging with merely the “Constitution” is not enough to make sense of how constitutional tasks are performed in legal systems may, at first blush, seem surprising to some. Two...