Swagat Baruah

Swagat Baruah is a third year student of law at Gujarat National Law University. He is the founder and managing editor of Catharsis, an online fortnightly magazine and founder and editor of the Indian Journal of Constitutional & Administrative Law, a bi-annual student edited journal. His areas of interests include constitutional law, international relations and political and moral philosophy.

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The Philippines’ War on Drugs

The Philippines’ War on Drugs

When Rodrigo Duterte took to office as President of the Philippines on June 30 2016, he sought to fulfil, among his many other deadly campaign promises, his promise to cleanse the country of drugs users and dealers, explicitly by ...
Slavery & Casteism in India: No Road to Freedom?

Slavery & Casteism in India: No Road to Freedom?

Modern slavery continues to be a significant problem, even in 2017. There are 46 million people around the world today who live in slavery, and 18 million (39%) of them are in India. Although these numbers are shocking, the fact that ...