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Statute v Morality: The Complex Case of Speluncean Explorers

Dr. Nigam Nuggehalli

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…

Book

Sci-Hub case: What’s really at stake is future of research in India

Dr. Arul George Scaria

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…

Book

The Cambridge Companion to Periyar

Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan

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….

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Reforming The Indian Bar: The Limits of Technological Solutions

Varsha Aithala, Karthik Suresh

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…

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After Kashmir’s ban on books, librarians are on a tightrope

Sidlingappa Huded

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….

Book Chapter

Legal Education and the Supreme Court

Dr. Kamala Sankaran

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…

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No SIR, Women and Migrants Have a Right to Vote

Dr. Swati Narayan

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…

Review

Audrey Truschke Puts People At The Centre of India’s 5,000-year Story

Dr. Samyak Ghosh

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….

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It’s Time for India’s Scheduled Tribes to Claim World Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Kunal Nath Shahdeo

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”…

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More than a Chief Minister: Shibu Soren shouldn’t be measured by his ‘political success’

Kunal Nath Shahdeo

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…

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The Silenced Struggles of Transmen

Dr. Swarupa Deb

August 4, 2025

Globally, transmen face structural erasure—not only due to their gender-diverse identities, but also because they were born in female bodies, traditionally viewed as inferior. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author…

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What The Scopes Trial Teaches Us

Dr. Nigam Nuggehalli

August 3, 2025

“The Scopes Trial brought a media circus to the town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held,” writes Dr. Nigam Nuggehalli. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not…