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Review: Abhinav Chandrachud’s Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India

Douglas McDonald-Norman/October 21, 2017March 20, 2018 /Leave a comment

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 speech law in India by young advocates who, between their legal practices and busy careers as legal writers, seemingly never…

Constitutional Law, Free Speech

Freedom of Speech

Abhinav Chandrachud/September 26, 2017April 1, 2018 /1 Comment

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 to free speech since many of the colonial-era restrictions on free speech (sedition, hate speech, obscenity, contempt of court, and…

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The Kanhaiya Kumar Bail Order and its Discontents

Vasujith Ram/March 4, 2016December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

(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 Union, who was arrested under Sec. 124A and 34 of the IPC for his role in the activities that transpired…

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Of the State and Beyond the State

Rohit De/February 27, 2011December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

I 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 about the role that it plays in the Indian republic.Jeff Redding in “Institutional v. Liberal Contexts for Contemporary Non-State, Muslim Civil…

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Consultation on Sedition Laws

Tarunabh Khaitan/January 25, 2011December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

A 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), BangaloreIn the wake of the conviction of Dr. Binayak Sen under Section 124A of the IPC and charges of sedition filed against Arundhati Roy, Varavara Rao and S.A.R. Geelani,…

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Frontline’s cover on Binayak Sen

V.Venkatesan/January 11, 2011December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

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.