Life and Liberty

Life and Liberty

Sonam Wangchuk’s detention: Unpacking detention under the NSA and the jurisprudence on grounds of detention
In Nagpur’s national law university, a sexual harassment survivor refuses to forget
Supreme Court issues notice to Union on Sonam Wangchuk’s wife’s plea against detention
How West Bengal’s resolution on Bengali migrant safety underscores the constitutional acrimony against India’s interstate migrants
‘The weight of a false confession’: Abdul Wahid Shaikh on the regime of horrors of Maharashtra’s Organised Crime Act
Supreme Court questions delay in trial of Surendra Gadling in 2016 Surjagarh mine arson case
How the Social Justice Ministry’s retrospective rules jeopardise PhD fellowships of Scheduled Caste students
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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
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