Today I was in a matter scheduled for 1030 am in which I was told at 1035 am that the judge was on leave. This is not an uncommon occurrence. People face much worse on a regular basis. Krishnapriya Nair from NLS has an excellent piece on Mayo Hall, a local court in Bangalore,…

Recolonise, not decolonise: This is what the three new criminal law acts have done. They haven't changed Macaulay and Stephen's basic structure very much; where they have, they have changed numbers (420 is no longer 420) which will require comprehensive re-training of police…

From roti kapda makaan to insaan dukaan vigyan. What a 21st century manifesto should look like and why they’re important befor you cast your vote. In TOI India from my colleagues Aditya and Shireen

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It’s election season so it’s also defection season. Candidates without tickets are switching over now, and many more will surely defect once elected. How can this disease of defection be eliminated? Is the law up to the task or is this a question of political morality? And why is…

This is the final word on the issue of which biryani is best.

I'm delighted to announce that Season 4 of Justify, the podcast on law and policy that I host is now live. Even more excited since this is an election special season where we discuss key issues of policy to inform voters, particularly young first time voters.
Politics cannot…

Free speech.
This deserves to be on a loop in all social media feeds for some months to reach the maximum people who resort to self-censorship out of fear, and to all those who seek to lord over people having a dissenting view.

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Getting positive freedom of expression jurisprudence is not altogether common, esp. given the polyvocal nature of the apex court.

The Supreme Court has recently delivered a landmark judgment on free speech. It held that Javed Ahmed Hajam, a professor in Kolhapur, could not be prosecuted for criticizing the abrogation of article 370 or for wishing happy Independence Day to Pakistanis. Unlike many other SC…