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India Needs to Value Academic Freedom, Research in Humanities to Emerge as Power Centre
April 22, 2024
“Why should academic freedom be of any concern to the public?” This piece advocates for strengthening spaces for rigorous intellectual conversation in India. Focusing on the role of humanities research, it argues that “critical and…
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times – review
April 15, 2024
Book Review: Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press 2023). Excerpt: “In Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times, Samuel Moyn dissects intellectual…
Fear of Love and Loving in India
April 13, 2024
Excerpt: “It is unthinkable that marriages and live-in relationships between adults should become so regimented by the State. This is a violation of constitutional and human rights to have adult agency appropriated by the state…
Under The Surface: Human Rights and Environmental Implications of the Proposed Sijimali Bauxite Mine in Odisha
April 12, 2024
Prepared by The Human Rights Lawyering Clinic at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, this report covers the human rights and environmental implications of the proposed Sijimali bauxite mine in Rayagada and Kalahandi…
The Role of a Judge in an Electoral Autocracy
April 12, 2024
In a year where 64 countries are holding elections, courts around the world must engage with a range of questions around electoral integrity and dysfunction, i.e., with the judicialization of electoral processes. How should democratically…
Haunted: Writing Poems as a Shadowy Intellectual
April 6, 2024
An academic and writer reflects on the circumstances and stimuli—in the form of poetry—that led her to find a voice that was as intimately her own as it was public.
Slipping into Judicial Barbarism?
April 1, 2024
Book Review | Gautam Bhatia, Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State, HarperCollins Publisher India, 2023
Oppressed, Backward, or Subaltern? Revisiting Hardgrave’s The Nadars of Tamilnad
March 22, 2024
Robert L Hardgrave’s book titled The Nadars of Tamilnad (1969), a study of a caste in South India and the politics of self-assertion in the colonial and postcolonial period, is revisited. This book is read…
Mapping Land Ownership as Part of the Caste Census Could Uncover Key Patterns about Power, Resources
February 29, 2024
Extract: Land remains the most important asset for Indians, but at the same time, ownership is highly skewed by caste…. Caste censuses can reveal crucial patterns in how power in India is enmeshed in land. Most…
Govt Publications Must Give Credit Where Due
February 27, 2024
Extract: ‘…[The] concept of moral rights applies not only to highly creative works of art or fiction but also to any original work, including original policy and academic writing, whether legal, economic, political, or any…
Entry, Market Structures and Welfare
February 19, 2024
Conventionally, entry is thought to enhance welfare by enhancing competition and hence lowering prices and increasing the output. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, working with an n-firm Cournot oligopoly set up and using the trigger…
Uttarakhand UCC pits vulnerable young couples against the might of the state
February 12, 2024
On 7 February 2024, the Uttarakhand Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill. In this article, Prof. (Dr.) Sarasu Esther Thomas unpacks its provisions along with their legal and social implications. Note: Views expressed in…