A Blog About India's Laws and Legal System, its Courts, and its Constitution
Abhinav Chandrachud’s Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017) is not Gautam Bhatia’s Offend, Shock and Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (2016). Admittedly, both books are examinations of free …
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In a new book published this month, “Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India” (Penguin, 2017), I argue that the enactment of the Constitution in 1950 made little substantive difference to the right …
Continue reading(Guest Post by Rahul Bajaj) On Wednesday, after much anticipation, a single judge of the Delhi High Court delivered her verdict in the bail application filed by Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the JNU Student …
Continue readingI wanted to flag two articles that both provide important ways of thinking about law the state and our colonial legacy. Siddharth Narain in EPW traces the history of sedition laws and asks pertinent questions …
Continue readingA consultation organised by the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion (CSSE), National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the Alternative Law Forum (ALF), Bangalore In the wake of the conviction of Dr. …
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Frontline’s latest issue is a comprehensive attempt to understand and articulate the civil society’s outrage against Binayak Sen’s conviction and sentence. My articles are here and here.
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