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Statute v Morality: The Complex Case of Speluncean Explorers
August 31, 2025
“The general public is aware of the law as a set of rules that regulate our conduct but beyond that, there is little appreciation of the law’s characteristics. People outside legal academia rarely think about…
Sci-Hub case: What’s really at stake is future of research in India
August 31, 2025
Indian researchers face a setback as Sci-Hub, a vital resource for accessing research papers, is blocked following a court order in a copyright dispute between major publishers and the platform. This ban raises concerns about…
The Cambridge Companion to Periyar
August 29, 2025
The Cambridge Companion to Periyar (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is a timely academic intervention which brings together scholars working on different aspects of modern Tamil politics, taking diverse perspectives, to comment on Periyar E. V….
Reforming The Indian Bar: The Limits of Technological Solutions
August 26, 2025
A majority of Indians do not have effective access to legal services, despite the constitutional promise of access to justice. There are two intertwined reasons for this: the unavailability of a sufficient number of good…
After Kashmir’s ban on books, librarians are on a tightrope
August 23, 2025
“On August 5, the J&K Home department notified the ban of 25 books, also marking the Director of Libraries in J&K, likely directing for the books to be removed from public libraries in the region….
Legal Education and the Supreme Court
August 22, 2025
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The aphorism captures the sentiment aptly when reading the Report of the Indian Universities Commission, 1902 today, particularly its section on legal education. It raises…
No SIR, Women and Migrants Have a Right to Vote
August 12, 2025
“As the SIR threatens to disenfranchise swathes of Bihari migrants, most workers lack the awareness, documentation or wherewithal to reclaim their rights.” Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do…
Audrey Truschke Puts People At The Centre of India’s 5,000-year Story
August 11, 2025
A review of the historian Audrey Truschke’s fourth book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent. The book is a history of the subcontinent built from the stories of traders, nuns, slaves, and scholars….
It’s Time for India’s Scheduled Tribes to Claim World Indigenous Peoples’ Day
August 9, 2025
[with Jordan Namchu, PhD Candidate, Sociology, IIT Bombay] The article examines the growing significance of World Indigenous Peoples’ Day in India, despite the Government of India’s refusal to recognise Scheduled Tribes (STs) as “indigenous peoples”…
More than a Chief Minister: Shibu Soren shouldn’t be measured by his ‘political success’
August 5, 2025
This article reflects on the passing of Shibu Soren, fondly remembered as Dishom Guru, a towering figure in Jharkhand’s Adivasi movement. It traces his role in transforming grassroots resistance into a broad-based political struggle for statehood…