Publications

This report presents findings from an assessment conducted by a project at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) on the status and role of policewomen in Karnataka. In May 2022, NLSIU entered a…

India has the world’s second-largest internet population. Alongside this surge in users, the country has witnessed rapid growth in e-sports, social gaming, and real-money platforms, including rummy and poker. The Promotion and Regulation of Online…

“The Karnataka Devadasi Bill 2025, while abolishing dedication practices, reinforces cis-normativity and creates potential legal precarity for the gender-diverse Jogappa community. The result is cultural erasure and the undoing of constitutional guarantees to gender plurality,”…

Compared to the Union government’s social security code, the state gig work legislations go further by not just providing a framework, but also regulating certain aspects of conditions of work, says Saurabh Bhattacharjee. Views expressed…

This article discusses the politics of morality that underpins the secular appeal of Onam, Kerala’s official state festival. It argues that Onam’s popularity across different sections of people is not because of any religious origins,…

“Underpaid, overworked and bereft of social security, over 300 workers, predominantly women, have been protesting for almost a decade with little sympathy and almost no intervention by government bodies.” Views expressed are solely those of…

“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…

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 (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….

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…

“The Karnataka government’s Draft Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Rules, 2025, intended to clarify and operationalise its parent law — the groundbreaking Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance, 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….