Life and Liberty

Life and Liberty

Delhi riots larger conspiracy case: SC to hear on September 19 pleas of Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima for bail
Supreme Court’s Samay Raina order: Reflecting on disability justice in the era of precarious liberties
No interim bail from SC for Kashmiri leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in terror funding case
How Long is Too Long? Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel and the Crisis of Credibility in Indian Courts
“When you make fun of people with disabilities, there’s breach of sensitivity”: Why did the SC order Samay Raina and comedians to issue apology?
Demolish, delete, deport: Bulldozing workers’ suffrage
Demolish, then disenfranchise: Urban planning as the new instrument of political engineering
This week at the Supreme Court: Notice issued in constitutional challenge to India’s re-introduced sedition law
Innocent until forgotten: How India’s POCSO Act is criminalising young love
‘More than 97 percent ‘untouchability’ cases remain pending, majority result in acquittal’, claims Social Justice Ministry’s data
A Delhi district court’s ‘modesty’ verdict goes one step ahead in de-normalising misogynist slurs
Legal, but out of reach: Medical termination of pregnancy remains arduous for India’s young people
Bombay HC’s ruling that POSH does not apply to women advocates shows independence of legal profession should not become loophole
“Struggle will go on. Repression is doomed!”: On Fr. Stan Swamy’s fourth martyrdom day, a declaration of a hunger strike
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Trapped in a disguised employment relationship, India’s platform workers deserve a new lease on social security
What RTI data reveals about custodial torture, lack of CCTV facilities in Tamil Nadu’s police stations
Prison overcrowding in India is truly the story of overwhelming systemic apathy
Madhya Pradesh’s death penalty proposal for forced conversions shuns the judiciary’s principled stand on both capital punishment and conversions
In the age of algorithm, we must revitalise the conversation on the ‘freedom of thought’
Justice A.S. Oka: The judge known for taking suffering seriously
Demanding justice in “difficult times”: The Supreme Court’s ‘fanciful’ response to refugee protection as India allegedly abandons Rohingyas in the sea
Book review: Aditya Mukherjee’s new book on Nehru tirelessly ponders over the ‘Idea of India’
Supreme Court grants interim bail to Prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad even as it restrains him from expressing opinion on Operation Sindoor
Making sense of India’s global standing on conjugal visitations and progeny rights of prisoners
Jai Bhim Nagar demolitions and the doctrine of unconstitutional state of affairs
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, reputed for notable decisions on personal liberty, sworn in as 52nd Chief Justice of India
The courage of Gulfisha Fatima’s writings
The gaping flaws in India’s long march to disability justice
The more they remain the same: Why protests against the new labour codes might be lacking popular grassroots support
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