The South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre has joined issue with the Supreme Court in this recent EPW article. The comment is regarding the Supreme Court’s anger at Teesta Setalvad...
Elizabeth Kolsky, whose pathbreaking book we reviewed here has written an opinion piece in the DAWN, highlighting how the Raymond Davis case follows a pattern established in colonial India where...
I have co-authored this post with Mrinal Satish, JSD Candidate at Yale Law School. The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India raises important questions about the...
1.Shekhar Hattangadi’s comment in Afternoon Despatch and Courier on Supreme Court’s recent ‘What the hell is going on in this country’ remark. 2.My critical comment on the...
In this piece in today’s Hindu I discuss the need for more legal infrastructure to tackle implementation failures in social welfare policy in India, building off the idea of the proposed...
This guest post has been contributed by Mrinal Satish, JSD candidate at the Yale Law School. Mr Satish has taught criminal law and procedure for several years and is working on a thesis examining...
I was flabbergasted to read about the fake courts in Coimbatore. The economics of an illegal act generally means that there has to be a substantial benefit, monetary or otherwise, from such illegal...
PRS Legislative Research is seeking exceptional, highly-motivated young Indian citizens for the Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship. The fellowship provides invaluable...
Inspired by the recent ad-campaign by the British Humanist Association calling upon people without religion to say so in their census data, I had a look at the Indian census form. While question 3 on...
I have recently had the chance to collect some thoughts on activism by the Supreme Court in this recent article in the Times of India. In this article, I argue that there are three key areas in which...