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Aakash Chandran & Varun Nambiar

Enforced disappearances: Here, India must emulate Pakistan

September 4,2018

Ganesh v. Sudhirkumar Srivastava and Ors

May 3,2019

Why the VVPAT petition matters

January 14,2019

Abdul Wahid Shaikh

Caste and religion and the role of the judiciary - Part 1

July 13,2019

Comparing privacy

May 24,2018

Re-employment of persons holding constitutional positions

January 22,2019

It is a long way to citizenship in Assam – Part 2

July 15,2019

The President must follow correct constitutional procedure when appointing the Prime Minister

May 13,2019

Ram can wait, says Supreme Court

October 30,2018

Aditya Gujarathi

The Invisible dwellers

May 25,2018

Ahmar Afaq and Paras Nath Singh

One year since the SC’s judgment,lynchings continue to “corrode the nation”

July 17,2019

Women’s work, unpaid and invisible

August 1,2018

Security Council declaring Masood Azhar a terrorist is no victory for India

May 14,2019

This is for you, Savita

June 11,2018

Making Marital Rape a crime does not destroy the institution of marriage

April 11,2019

ECONOMIC SURVEY 2018-19: Of Hashtags and Magic Wands

July 6,2019

A fine balance

May 28,2018

Half-widows of Kashmir

May 25,2018

Ally Coll Steele

Full-time with #MeToo

May 25,2018

Alvaro Bermejo & Maeve Taylor

Her body, her rights

June 18,2018

Finding humanity in a state of exceptions

October 15,2018

Amritananda Chakravorty

Karnataka crisis focuses on loopholes in anti-defection law

July 16,2019

Modi government’s worst legacy

January 7,2019

To codify or not to codify

July 26,2018

No generation can have it all

May 24,2018

Anand Teltumbde

Contemporary Challenges before the Anti-Caste Movement

April 23,2019

Challenges beyond 377

August 13,2018

Anand Grover & Tripti tandon

Azadi for LGBTQI communities

September 8,2018

Angshukanta Chakraborty

Black day for fourth estate

June 15,2018

ANGSHUMAN CHOUDHURY

‘Urban Naxals’ and the invention of an enemy

August 31,2018

Diary of an ‘ex parte convict’

June 11,2018

Anindita Mukherjee

Pervasive discrimination, segregated spaces and the chimerical right to housing

June 6,2019

Anjali Bhardwaj

A fine balance

May 28,2018

Wheels within wheels in RBI revolving door

December 11,2018

Ankita Ramgopal

May 28,2018

#Sabarimala: Dissent from the dissent

October 22,2018

Anupriya Dhonchak

UAPA: An obituary for democracy

September 10,2018

Anupriya Dhonchak & Sakshi Chindaliya

The ‘gender’ wage gap: Part I | Capitalism and patriarchy

September 4,2018

The People's Judge: Justice Madan B Lokur

February 1,2019

Government continues negligence and apathy

January 18,2019

Archit Krishna & Kritika A

The mask of ‘adla badli’: How Chhattisgarh government steals adivasi land

October 25,2018

# MeTooUrbanNaxal | In the words of Arundhati Roy

August 31,2018

ESI scheme dilution is against workers interests

July 2,2019

Arun Srivastava

Reservation for upper castes a political gimmick

January 11,2019

Arvind Kurian Abraham

Need of the Hour

June 11,2018

Ashima Mandla & Mandakini Singh

Data on manual scavenging remains sketchy

February 11,2019

ASHUTOSH SHARMA

Kathua rape-murder case: ‘Thank Allah for justice’, says family after court holds temple priest among six accused guilty

June 10,2019

Ashwin Varghese

Is abolishing the Orderly System enough?

September 3,2018

Women’s day is a chance to replenish

March 8,2019

#PulwamaAttack: The forgotten option of the Law

February 26,2019

Barun Das Gupta

NRC IS A NIGHTMARE FOR BENGALIS IN ASSAM

July 16,2019

Armistice Day centenary: Grand delusions

November 13,2018

Failure to address concerns

May 24,2018

The Long Night

May 2,2019

Bindu Doddahatti

Section 377 ruling and the rise in right-wing assault

November 20,2018

Boris Linnebank

Commitment to the Constitution

January 26,2019

The labour in defence

January 28,2019

#Section377: Criminalising love is cruel and inhumane

September 21,2018

Charumathi Sanakaran

The Leaflet Review: Lynch Nation

November 29,2018

India’s crisis of democracy

January 2,2019

Some Solace, Some Morale : Bombay HC Observes.

March 29,2019

Questions of propriety

May 25,2018

Dinanath Waghmare

राष्ट्रीय शिक्षण धोरणआणि भटके विमुक्त

July 14,2019

Why I am a Womanist

April 15,2019

Need for change

May 25,2018

Divya Srinivasan

Do away with ‘restitution of conjugal rights’

November 2,2018

long neglect of muslim women

May 28,2018

Freedom of expression after Pulwama attack

February 20,2019

Free Speech Collective

Free Speech in India 2018

December 31,2018

Victory or defeat for Muslims?

October 6,2018

Fuzail Ayyubi & Ibad Mushtaq

NRC: Abdul Kuddus - a judgment full of contradictions

May 25,2019

The Prashant Kanojia Bail Order: Two Constitutional Issues

June 12,2019

Mephisto in Mantralaya

June 5,2019

#AadhaarVerdict: Right to Privacy restricted

September 28,2018

Gopal Sankaranarayanan

Supreme Court: Nine ways forward

November 20,2018

Lok Sabha 2019: Do “National Security” elections imperil National Security Institutions?

May 13,2019

India’s abortion laws must change

July 13,2019

Democratising human rights commissions

August 13,2018

Film Review: The Last Reel

June 22,2019

Hon. Michael Kirby

Boost for Privacy

May 25,2018

Whither accountability?

May 25,2018

ASSAM NRC: As State Coordinator bypasses rules to finalize citizenship register, over one lakh persons stare at an uncertain future

June 29,2019

On Liberal Constitutionalism

May 16,2019

IPA-Morning Star

Trump is paving the way for a bloody civil war in Venezuela

January 31,2019

Ishita Kumar & Nayantara Raja

Humanity deported

October 6,2018

Live streaming, a milestone for Indian judiciary

October 20,2018

A monumental victory

April 28,2018

JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI

[FULL TEXT] Third RNG Lecture by Justice Gogoi

July 13,2018

Justice Ruma Pal

Why judicial recusals matter

June 11,2018

Kadayam S Subramanian

The Congress must repeal AFSPA if voted to power in 2019

April 24,2019

Kalpana Kannabiran

Redeeming the Constitution

May 13,2019

With the fearless voice of integrity gagged, who will speak for you and me?

June 27,2019

Kalyani Shankar

Sri Lanka: Coup against Ranil Wickremesinghe

October 30,2018

Kanmani Palanisamy

NRC: Don’t ignore constitutional questions

August 7,2018

Why India’s ‘blasphemy law’ should go

August 21,2018

Katyayani Sinha

Understanding ‘Sedition’ in India

September 17,2018

Kavita Krishnan

Major Gogoi and the Budgam woman

June 11,2018

To be really a feminist is to do what the Constitution requires you to do: Justice DY Chandrachud

October 9,2018

Re-establishing upper caste dominance over educational institutions

June 14,2019

Why was Alok Verma not heard by HPC?

January 15,2019

The story of origin

June 11,2018

Chennai on a Rainwater Harvesting spree: Are we on the right track?

July 17,2019

Lavanya Regunathan Fischer

Informational self-determination

May 28,2018

Lawyers Collective

Draft Patent Amendment Rules, 2018: Comments

January 9,2019

Lorraine Misquith

Profits over lives

May 24,2018

BJP rule worst period for Bhopal gas tragedy victims

December 4,2018

‘Abolish discriminatory personal laws’

May 28,2018

Pollution: Law isn't enough

November 27,2018

Mahalakshmi Pavani

Might is not always right

April 24,2019

Justice A K Sikri and the Death Penalty

March 24,2019

Major General S.G. Vombatkere

Inciting mutiny

May 25,2018

Malavika Rajkotia

The most dangerous thing

May 25,2019

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Effigies can’t kill Gandhi

February 3,2019

Inside the Leprosy Home in Delhi

February 14,2019

Manjula Pradeep

A clarion call to protect our Constitution

April 13,2019

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram

A more meaningful court

June 11,2018

Masooma Ranalvi

FGM: Changing scenario

May 24,2018

Mayank Sapra & Arjun Natarajan

Is MHA order a ‘licence to snoop’?

December 26,2018

The three approaches

May 28,2018

A party spokesperson makes a sexist remark

March 8,2019

The Judge Loya Verdict

June 11,2018

Mihir Desai, Lara Jesani

Aadhaar verdict: A predictable letdown

September 27,2018

सूडबुद्धीने हल्ले ही तर ब्राम्हणी प्रवृत्ती !

July 14,2019

Spirit of Islam and Constitution

May 28,2018

RIP, judicial primacy

June 11,2018

Should India revisit Indus treaty?

March 16,2019

Discordant note

May 24,2018

Election Explainer Part III

April 10,2019

Assessing Nehru, the administrator

July 29,2018

Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor

Independence, and a deep mourning

August 31,2018

N D Jayaprakash

Mission Shakti: ASAT Test & National Security (Part 2)

April 21,2019

Sexual Harassment at Workplace: Part III | The purpose and constitution of the Local Complaints Committee

April 28,2019

Khamosh! Is the Chatter of Surrogate Election Campaigns on Social Media Silencing Election Silence?

April 16,2019

Nihalsing B Rathod

BHIMA KOREGAON PART IV

June 26,2019

Nikita Agarwal & Kritika A

#BhimaKoregaonVerdict: Under a shadow

October 5,2018

The curious case of a cryptic notification

December 22,2018

Kulbhushan Jadhav’s right to consular access affirmed by ICJ

July 17,2019

Nitya Chakraborty

New age editor Shameem Faizee is no more

July 8,2019

#MeToo: A tracker

November 29,2018

Misuse of #MeToo movement?

January 7,2019

Woman of substance

May 24,2018

Prison cannot stop Varavara Rao from writing

December 17,2018

Pamela Philipose

Look back with anxiety

June 11,2018

Paras Nath Singh

Parliament watch: Transparency and accountability in appointment of judges as important as augmenting judges strength in the SC: Ravi Shankar Prasad

July 10,2019

Parinitha Shetty

Rama has been exiled once again

June 29,2019

Prabhu Rajgadkar

तिची भाकर करपलेलीच !

June 30,2019

Pranav Tanwar & Adhil Saifudheen

The Right to Truth

January 11,2019

Pranav Tanwar & Saurabh Pandey

Shifting stakes of privacy

April 29,2019

Pranjal Kishore

Lateral entry in civil services: An attempt to circumvent the system of reservations

June 28,2019

The Age of Information Emergency

June 26,2018

Prashant Padmanabhan

“I fully endorse the majority view of the Supreme Court in the Sabarimala case; worshipping is everyone’s right”

June 28,2019

Prem Kumar Vijayan

Surgical strike to privatise education

July 8,2018

Priyam Lizmary Cherian

Decoding the Monsanto dispute

January 24,2019

A Primer on the Jadhav Case at the International Court of Justice

July 17,2019

Racheeta Chawla

Working women’s manifesto demands government accountability

March 12,2019

Radhika Jhalani

India urgently needs a comprehensive strategy to combat climate change

May 12,2019

Suspending the law

May 25,2018

Minerals: A Shared Inheritance for Future Generations

March 30,2019

Where are legal safeguards to criticism?

January 7,2019

Raja Dandamudi & Prarthana Bathija

Partition and minority rights

January 30,2019

Rajindar Sachar

Judiciary Embarrassed

April 30,2018

Gook Baba cocks a snook at the powers that be

July 15,2019

राष्ट्रीय शिक्षण धोरण २०१९ : जनतेच्या शिक्षण कत्तलीचा जाहीरनामा

June 30,2019

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

India’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg

May 25,2018

Raushan Tara Jaswal

How should India respond to the changing era of digital ‘exceptionalism’?

May 4,2019

Open letter to P Chidambaram: Include promise to repeal sedition law, Section 124-A, IPC in 2019 manifesto

January 26,2019

Rafale judgement wins 2018’s best fiction award

January 1,2019

NRC: Towards the tipping point?

October 31,2018

ऋजुता खरे

झेप छावणीची-भविष्याच्या आशेची

June 16,2019

There is an urgent need to reform the functioning of the ECI

May 21,2019

सचिन गोडांबे

निवडणूक निकालातून काय धडा घ्याल?

May 26,2019

RSS-motivated decision to remove Kancha Ilaiah’s books

October 29,2018

The other Triple talaqs

May 28,2018

Sameer Nandikar

आम्ही पण पायल तडवीचे मारेकरी

June 9,2019

Understanding Criminal Law: Role of oral evidence/conduct

January 30,2019

Sanjiv Krishan Sood

Pulwama attack is a massive security failure

February 17,2019

Labour law reforms: The new labour minister has his work cut out

June 19,2019

Judicial evasion

May 24,2018

Saumya Srivastava

Sabarimala: A curtain-raiser

July 17,2018

Miles to go still

May 28,2018

FGM is girl child abuse, abolish it

August 20,2018

A loud silencing

June 22,2018

RIP Neelabh Mishra

May 25,2018

Earmark beds for the poor: SC

July 19,2018

A People’s Judge

June 11,2018

Shailesh Gandhi

A call to the RBI to be transparent

April 27,2019

Despite pliant media, VHP-RSS meet at Ayodhya was a flop

November 29,2018

Right to Education Act and NEP

June 21,2019

Shantha Venugopal

Use Republic Day to reflect upon the Constitution

January 26,2019

Who’s afraid of the law?

July 23,2018

Innocent But Damned

April 6,2019

पृथ्वीवर येऊ घातलेले संकट– भाग २

June 30,2019

Shreya Mohapatra

Fake news vs Free Press

May 25,2018

Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh

The question hidden in plain sight

June 23,2018

The charade of green clearance

January 4,2019

Our seditious tongues

May 25,2018

Sourya Majumder & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

[Book Extract] Whither judicial aloofness?

November 28,2018

Srinivas Kodali

Disenfranchised by Aadhaar: Voter Deletions in Telangana

March 17,2019

After #MeToo, beyond POSH

November 13,2018

Sucheta Dasgupta

Sonbhadra's daughters

February 14,2019

सुदाम राठोड

खरे गुन्हेगार शोधा - सोळा वर्षा नंतर सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाचे आदेश

May 12,2019

Sudha Bharadwaj

Why I won't appear on Republic TV

August 21,2018

S Sudhakar Reddy

Renaming places to hide failures

November 16,2018

Suhrith Parthasarthy

Privacy as Fundamental Right

May 28,2018

Goa’s dirty mining

May 25,2018

Sumeet Pushkarna

From Mohandas to Mahatma

June 11,2018

Sundeep Narwani

Book Review: How to win an Indian election

March 13,2019

Sunil Fernandes

Thoughts on Republic Day: Time to move beyond ‘coalition of castes’

January 26,2019

#Section377: The long road to freedom

September 6,2018

Surinder S Rathi

From victim to survivor

July 16,2018

Hindutva’s reign of terror

June 13,2018

Syed Tamjeed Ahmad

Foreign flying rights: Schism in the aviation industry as airlines seek level playing field in slot allocations

June 4,2019

तमन्ना असलम इनामदार

मशीदीत पुरुषांसोबत नमाज हा तर मुस्लिम महिलांचा अधिकार

April 28,2019

The Surrogacy Bill, 2016: A step back for inclusivity

June 9,2019

The Founders and The Editor

Statement of Purpose

June 11,2018

The Invisible Lawyers Team

A regrettable judgement

May 25,2018

Karnataka MLA crisis: SC leaves it to Speaker to decide on resignations

July 17,2019

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

June 22,2019

तुषार कांति

बंदी जीवनाचा ठेवा

June 9,2019

Walking on thin ice

May 25,2018

Ujjaini Chatterji

Rohingyas: Genocide in the backyard

May 17,2019

Upasana Garnaik

Why exempt marital rape?

May 25,2018

Taking stock of Ambedkar’s conversations

April 15,2019

उत्तम जागीरदार

डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांचे कृषी मॉडेल- भाग ५

May 26,2019

When Big Data topples the Secret Ballot

March 19,2019

Electoral Bonds: How compromised is our democracy

April 8,2019

Venkatesh Nayak

Cabinet note on 10% quota law cannot be disclosed under RTI: Social Justice Ministry

February 11,2019

Survivors take centre-stage

May 28,2018

Vijay Hiremath & Anubha Rastogi

Rubabuddin’s former lawyers on how the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case unfolded

January 4,2019

Sabarimala forces us to recognise unacknowledged violence against women

February 7,2019

विनायक काकडे

व्यवहारवाद सत्ता गाजवतो तेव्हा स्वातंत्र्य राखण्याची त्याची इच्छा संपुष्टात येते

June 9,2019

विरा साथीदार

‘आर्टिकल १५’:वर्गाची फोडणी - जातीचा मसाला

July 7,2019

Interview with Anand Grover

May 25,2018

Warisha Farasat

Thoughts on Republic Day: Safeguard the rule of law

January 26,2019

Election Explainer Part III

April 10,2019

To SudhaMa’am, With Love

September 1,2018

Who was Justice Holmes?

October 23,2018

Muslim Women’s Struggle against Triple Talaq

March 8,2019

[Book Extract] The 'Common Maximum Programme': Lynchings betray an old pattern

February 25,2019