I’ve spent the last 1.5 months writing a 5-part election series for the Indian Express, called “Vikas Vote”. I travel to constituencies across India which have seen big improvements...
The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (“Vidhi”) invites applications for the post of “Reporter-cum-Blog Administrator”, a fully-paid and full-time engagement based out of Vidhi’s...
Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Rajgopal Saikumar had this interesting piece in the Hindu this weekend cautioning the judiciary against Public Interest Litigation that is used by groups already well...
The Supreme Court has recently delivered an important judgment in the case of National Legal Services Authority v Union of India (NALSA). A two-judge bench comprising Justices Radhakrishnan and Sikri...
The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne are organising a workshop on Contemporary issues in Indian Public Law on the 10th and 11th of April 2015...
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...
DAKSH and India Together have jointly instituted the DAKSH-India Together Fellowship to encourage data journalism centered around elections. Two of our fellows have written insightful pieces, one on...
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...
In the current issue of EPW, Rowena Robinson in an article titled, “Minority Rights vs Caste Claims: Indian Christians and the Predicament of Law” turns to the Constituent Assembly...
Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) launched earlier this week at a number of law schools in India. SILC is a legal citation system created by some recent law graduates and law students for the...
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri I recently happened to visit the Supreme Court of India where I required a “proximity-pass” for gaining entry to the building. Coming from the Bombay High Court where...
A draft of a paper I have been working on was recently posted on SSRN as part of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper Series. The paper is titled: “From Hyderabad...