Publications

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….

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…

“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…

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….