This is a guest post by Arghya Sengupta The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy is releasing a Briefing Book for the new government. Titled, ‘Towards the Rule of Law: 25 Legal Reforms for...
Here is my tribute to Granville Austin, the biographer of India’s Constitution, who died last Sunday. In it, I describe how Austin researched the making of India’s Constitution in...
Granville Austin, 87, the eminent biographer of India’s constitution, passed away this afternoon in Washington, DC. He was surrounded by family and friends. Red, as he liked to be called...
Guest Submission by Goutham Shivshankar, Advocate, Madras High Court One would imagine that privacy, as a concept, is neutral towards success. By this, I mean that the right to privacy would entail...
This is a guest post by Danish Sheikh, an advocate who is presently doing a masters in law at Michigan Law School. In 2004, Kokila, a hijra in Karnataka, was brutally raped by ten men, only to...
Arvind Elangovan, the biographer of BN Rau, has written an interesting paper. He summarizes the new directions in Indian constitutional history studies after Granville Austin. Arvind says we must...
Earlier this year, the Center for Policy Research organized a seminar on the Supreme Court’s recent Koushal decision. The seminar featured lawyers who appeared in the case. Excerpts are...
I ended my earlier post asking the Court to review de-novo the jurisdictional basis for the Koushal appellants to maintain their case. In this post, I will go further and look at the text of the...
On Wednesday morning, Justice Ganpat Singh Singhvi donned his black robes one last time. The judge with a smiling face had a busy day ahead of him. After hearing several cases, he would attend a late...
The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in Suresh Kaushal v. Naz Foundation on the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the...