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Tag: Constitution

The Right to be Forgotten: The good, the bad and the ugly

On February 1, 2022 By Sanskruti Yagnik In Article 19, Constitution, Privacy

[Sanskruti Yagnik examines a recent Madras HC order, and recommends a seven-part test for the right to be forgotten, which aims to balance freedom of expression with privacy.  The author wishes to thank Eeshan Sonak, Gayatri Gupta, …

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-we-need-caste-census/articleshow/86097417.cms.

Caste of Votes: Need for a Caste Census?

On January 31, 2022 By Kartik Shrivastava In Caste Census, Constitution, Constitutional Law

[Kartik Shrivastava writes about the government’s reluctance to conduct a caste census and argues that there is a pressing need to conduct the same. Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA), Hyderabad Chapter had partnered with …

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Merger Exception to Defection – Obstacle or Facilitator? [Part II]

On January 23, 2022 By Shanthan Reddy In Constitution, defection, Election, Explainer, Tenth Schedule

[Ed Note– This is a two-part series on anti-defection law by our Senior Analyst, Shanthan Reddy. Part I introduces defection law to the readers and explains how the merger exception has been misused to facilitate …

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Merger Exception to Defection – Obstacle or Facilitator? [Part I]

On January 21, 2022 By Shanthan Reddy In Constitution, defection, Election, Explainer, Tenth Schedule

[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on anti-defection law by our Senior Analyst, Shanthan Reddy. Part I introduces defection law to the readers and explains how the merger exception has been misused to facilitate …

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2021 Myanmar Coup – Surprise or no surprise?

On December 10, 2021 By Shanthan Reddy In Constitutional Law

This piece analyses the recent Myanmar coup vis-a-vis the country’s questionable democratic status.

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COVID-19 and Dwindling Indian Federalism

On July 15, 2020 By Vishal Rakhecha In Constitutional Law, Federalism, Governance, New Scholarship

[Editorial Note: This post is a part of a new initiative – New Scholarship, through which we aim to promote recently published scholarship in the area of Public Law. As part of this series, we …

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Tax, Constitution and the Supreme Court

On December 14, 2019 By Karthik Sundaram In Book Launch, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court of India, Taxation

Taxation is omnipresent and makes its presence felt in all spheres of life. From a legal standpoint, when one contemplates on the fundamentals of taxation, the first set of questions which arise are (i) what …

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Economic Quota And The Basic Structure Doctrine – Exploring The Oddities (Part 1)

On February 20, 2019 By Anant Sangal In Constitutional Law, Equality, Reservation, Supreme Court of India

This article is the first part of a two-part series on the 103rd amendment which provides for a maximum of ten percent reservation to the economically weaker sections of citizens, and deals with a brief history of the jurisprudence surrounding reservations in India.

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