Publications

Co-author: Swarupa Deb Dalit, non-English speaking, disabled and Indigenous queer people are still sidelined at these LGBTQIA+ events. This must change. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not…

Although the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act 2016 prohibits disability-based discrimination, it in the same breath condones the acts or omissions if the same are considered by the State or authorities as the…

This article is part of a symposium on Theunis Roux’s article titled ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa’, which proposes two dominant narratives about the constitutional…

Excerpt: ‘The 1960s were a time of student uprisings across the world…. While all these protests made for spectacular news, and are duly commemorated every year, only a few of them resulted in a concrete…

Excerpt: “Author William Dalrymple’s recent comments about a generation of Indian academic historians failing to engage with the public has sparked controversy. What has irked many academic historians is the charge that a certain kind…

Excerpt: ‘Kolkata witnessed two contrasting ‘carnival’ scenes on October 15, barely three kilometres apart. A human chain of the protesters on one side, barricades erected by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on the other….

Women carry out a large share of the total unpaid work which leaves them very less time to engage in paid employment in India. This work tries to understand if there is a reduction in…

The Supreme Court of India, in the recent case of Knit Pro International v. State of NCT of Delhi, clarified that the offence under S. 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957 is cognizable and nonbailable….

Should judges be obliged to disclose their financial status to the larger public? This article intervenes in the ongoing debate around this question and argues that a proactive disclosure of the financial status of serving…

Author: Mohan Mani, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Labour Studies, National Law School of India University With 93 per cent of employment in the informal economy, sector-specific social security schemes offer a pragmatic solution for progressive…

The Internet Archive’s efforts have democratised access to more than 835 billion web pages and 44 million texts for anyone with an internet connection. Two of IA’s techno-legal experiments prompted a major copyright tussle with…

The ongoing creative upscaling of AI at the behest of OpenAI and the advent of ChatGPT are both remarkable and alarming. As things stand, this lesser-understood and unregulated field is riddled with futuristic speculations. And…