Publications

M P Jain ’s Indian Constitutional Law is an authoritative and, classic treatise on Indian constitutional law. This book, presently in its Ninth edition, is a thematic presentation of the complex and multi-dimensional discipline of…

Co-authored by Nikita Koradia VFS Global performs what used to be a sovereign function of consular, passport and visa services. The law gives it a de-facto monopoly, making it impossible for competition to come up….

Excerpt: “Much has been made of EVMs showing high battery levels at the day’s end, particularly in booths favouring certain parties. The ECI’s explanation is straightforward – machines designed for 2,000 voters and four ballot…

Institution-level dialogues can help in setting up both general and discipline-specific guidelines on what constitutes permissible AI assistance, and what is not. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do…

Excerpt “History has shown copyright can be misused to suppress speech that does not conform to one’s views. Numerous takedown requests on platforms like YouTube demonstrate how this strategy is widely used by political parties,…

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…