In this piece, the author analyses the Jammu Kashmir Media Policy, 2020 in the backdrop of abuse of power by the government in the valley and comments on the constitutionality of the Policy.
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In this piece, the author analyses the Jammu Kashmir Media Policy, 2020 in the backdrop of abuse of power by the government in the valley and comments on the constitutionality of the Policy.
Continue readingIn this post our Senior Editor V. Venkatesan writes about the contempt case against the actor Suriya.
Continue reading[Ed Note: As part of our New Scholarship Section, we have been inviting discussants to respond to specific articles. This Response Piece is part of a series of posts indexed here discussing the public law themed articles …
Continue readingIn early 2007, two female law students in America were targets of degrading comments on the site “AutoAdmit”, a discussion page meant for law students and lawyers. In her article on internet misogyny, Martha Nussbaum …
Continue readingIn our latest piece, the author highlights the criminalization of PUBG in Gujarat with special focus on Section 37(3) of the Gujarat Police Act, 1951. The author discusses this in the light of the Blue Whale precedent, while further drawing parallels between the deontological and consequentialist approaches to free speech.
Continue readingIn this post, the author traces the history of Section 377 and the queer movement in India. Starting from the implementation of this section in the colonial era to Naz and Koushal judgment, this post is one stop destination to understand the incidents that finally led to the Navtej Johar judgment.
Continue readingAbhinav 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 …
Continue readingIn 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 readingby Sujoy Chatterjee The National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. has been in the news of late, for football players allegedly disrespecting the U.S. national anthem by kneeling/sitting/silently demonstrating during the playing of the …
Continue reading[This post follows up on my previous post on this judgment on this blog.] In Koushal v Naz—the case being touted as one of its worst judgments—a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court recently …
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