This essay examines the 2025 Kashmir book ban through a constitutional and socio-legal lens, arguing that it rests on a paternalistic “fear of the spectator” that distrusts readers’ interpretive...
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul’s concurring opinion in the Article 370 judgment proposed the creation of an impartial Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Jammu & Kashmir. Two years hence, no such...
Introduction On 29th December 2021, a Single Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir [“J&K High Court”] quashed the detention order of Umar Fayaz Mir on the ground that all documents...
This article highlights the significance of the J&K Constituent Assembly Debates for constitutional interpretation. All the volumes of J&K CADs and the Autonomy Report 2000 can be accessed on our...
This piece is a part of a series of posts discussing the public law themed research articles featured in Volume 9 of the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law. In this piece, Shrimoyee Ghosh responds...
“There is a tide in the affairs of men (sic), which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now...