A Critique of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022
Image description: A picture of the Constitution of India. Underneath the words ‘Constitution of India’ is the picture of the State Emblem of India. In the State Emblem of India,...
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The War Follows Them Home: The Educational Limbo Facing Indian Medical Students Evacuated from Ukraine
Image description: 4 Indian medical students. In the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine war, roughly 17,000 students studying in Ukraine were evacuated by the Indian government. But the implications of the...
Paltry Prisoner Wages: India’s Dire Need to Recognise a Prisoner’s Right To Minimum Wages
Image Description: This is a picture of the Chennai Central Jail building. The Odisha High Court, in December 2021, took a much-awaited step by directing the State Government to revise...
Are Adoptive Mother Entitled to get Maternity Leave?
Image Description: The picture of a woman working on the computer at her desk in the office. She is holding a baby in her hand. Section 5(4) of the Maternity...
Welfare as a Human Right: An Intersectional Approach to Trans Rights in India
Image description: Protesters protesting the Transgender Bill in India in 2018. Judicial intervention has given the impetus for Indian queer politics to articulate its civil and political demands. However, there...
The Development of Disability Rights in the Indian Supreme Court
In a significant judgment delivered in February 2021, a three-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court made a seminal contribution in advancing disability rights jurisprudence in India and globally. At...
Do Not Thwart Women’s Employment, Facilitate It: Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Arbitrary Gender-Based Restrictions to Restaurant Orchestras
Image description: A group of women, many of whom are smiling or laughing. The Indian Supreme Court recently delivered a pathbreaking judgment reminding the State of its obligation to facilitate...
Toward an Empowering Disability Discourse in the Justice System: The Indian Supreme Court’s Call to Action
Image description: An old woman on a wheel chair being escorted to a polling booth in India. One of the many positive contributions of the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in...
Digital Disinformation in India: An Attack on Mental Autonomy
Image description: The words ‘fake news’ containing the word ‘propaganda’ inside the letters. Concern is mounting over the increase in disinformation or “fake news” spreading across Indian social media platforms...
Maitreyi Misra on Deathworthy
Delhi High Court Hears Petitions on Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage in India
Image description: Wrapped in a gay flag at the Pride Parade, New Delhi. In Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India (2018) the archaic law under Section 377 of the...
Jayna Kothari on Vikash Kumar
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