India’s Agrarian Crisis: A Life Extinguished Every Hour
An average of twenty-eight farmers and farm labourers are ending their lives every single day across the country, a life extinguished every hour.
Vikas Meshram
•10 min read
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The UCC and Islamic Law and The Supreme Court of India
Uniform civil codes reveal their true character not in their stated aims but in how they treat religious minorities in practice.
Shafeeq R. Mahajir
•9 min read
The Structural Mismatch: Labour Law and Tribal Rights in India’s Schedule V Areas
Constitutional shields meant for tribal protection are pointed in the wrong direction, leading to economic neo-bondage in India’s mineral-rich Schedule V areas.
Skand Vats & Riyansh Gupta
•7 min read
The “Judicial Exclusion” of Converted Dalits
The judiciary’s narrow, theological interpretation of social status for converted Dalits is fundamentally flawed and merits urgent reconsideration, failing to acknowledge persistent caste-based discrimination.
Shafeeq R. Mahajir
•4 min read
Tap water brings big relief for women, they respond with increasing community involvement
Women are feeling relieved of a big burden now in villages where tap water is reaching all or most homes.
Bharat Dogra
•5 min read
Birthright Citizenship Affirmed: Supreme Court Delivers Decisive Constitutional Defeat to Trump’s Executive Order
The Supreme Court delivered a decisive constitutional defeat to President Trump’s attempt to redefine birthright citizenship.
Meraj Ahmed
•7 min read
Fundamental Rights in Private Hands: Rethinking Article 12 in a Platform Economy
If fundamental rights are to mean anything in the age of platforms, Article 12 in the Constitution of India cannot remain imprisoned in the mid-century imagination of power.
Skand Vats & Saanvi Panigrahi
•9 min read
Indian Citizenship, Constitutional Identity, and Proof : Examining the “Passport Clarification”
If a passport issued by the sovereign Republic after extensive governmental verification is not conclusive proof of citizenship, what document is?
Shafeeq R. Mahajir
•7 min read
Age of Consent to Rage Against Consent: A Selective Assault on a Recognised Minority Legal Institution
Equality demands neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, not the privileging of secular or majoritarian family structures over minority legal traditions.
Shafeeq R. Mahajir
•8 min read
The Algorithmic War on Children: How State Armies Erode Global Safeguards
The unprecedented 34% spike in child fatalities cannot be separated from the changing technological architecture of modern warfare.
Meraj Ahmed
•5 min read
The Patna High Court’s Grilling of Police Brutality
The Patna High Court sharply reminded the state machinery that a police uniform is not a license for tyranny, drawing a sobering parallel between unchecked custodial violence and the dark days of totalitarian regimes.
Meraj Ahmed
•4 min read
The Last Walk: How a Father’s Five-Year-Old Son Gave India a New Fundamental Right
What arrived before the Court as a routine motor accident compensation appeal (a father disputing a reduced award for his son’s death) became the occasion for the Court to declare, for the first time with this degree of clarity, that walking is not a residual activity tolerated at the margins of India’s roads. It is a fundamental right.
Meraj Ahmed
•9 min read