The Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025 & International Human Rights Law
On 5th December 2025, a Member of the Indian Parliament (Lower House) introduced the Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025 (‘the Bill’). The Bill aims to introduce pivotal changes in the...
Rights in Text, Oppression in Practice: The Faultline of Minority Protection in India
India’s constitutional framework formally guarantees equality and minority protection. Article 14 of the Constitution ensures equality before the law, Article 15 prohibits discrimination on religious grounds, and Articles 25–30 protect...
Algorithmic Welfare Exclusion and the Right to Food in India: Lessons from Samagra Vedika
Bismillah Bee is a 67-year-old widow living in an urban slum in Telangana, India. An algorithm denied her family subsidised food grains. The reason: the system confused her late husband,...
The Indian Supreme Court’s Shifting Approach: Go to High Court
During the drafting of Indian Constitution, the father of the Indian Constitution, Dr B.R. Ambedkar, categorically said that Article 32 is the sole and heart of the Indian Constitution. It...
Closed Classrooms – Exploring the Impact of School Closures due to Air Pollution on Children’s Right to Education
The worsening of air quality across Delhi in India has again led to school closures. Almost all schools have moved towards virtual learning, but this requires internet access. While school...
An International Human Rights Law Critique of Karnataka’s Hate Speech Bill
Karnataka’s Legislative Assembly recently passed the controversial Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2025 (“Bill”), which is currently pending gubernatorial assent. Introduced amid concerns over religious and caste-based...
Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure- Stateless citizens elegy: Part 2- Legal sanction for SOP
In Part 1 of this blog, I argued that Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) imposes arbitrary procedural requirements and stringent timelines that impede suspected foreigners’ access to relief before constitutional...
Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure – Stateless Citizens Elegy: Part 1- On Arbitrariness of Procedural requirements of SOP
On 9.09.2025, Assam’s Chief Minister approved the Standard Operating Procedure (‘SOP’) for implementation of the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam ) Act 1950 (‘Act’), thereby empowering the state government to bypass...
The Years of Lost Freedom: The Untold Cost of Rights and India’s Unkept Promise of Compensation
In India, populist narratives often reduce personal liberty to an abstract idea, and its true value is realised only when the State restricts or denies it. This becomes especially evident...
Delhi Chokes in Hazardous Air: A Human Rights Emergency
Year after year, the capital city of India chokes in an Air Quality Index (“AQI”) that exceeds levels deemed not just unhealthy but outright hazardous. This month, according to the...
Transgender Rights in Employment after Jane Kaushik v. Union of India: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Ruling
In October 2025, in Jane Kaushik v Union of India, the Indian Supreme Court confronted a form of exclusion that has become routine rather than exceptional. A transgender teacher was...
India’s Deepfake Dilemma: Why Publicity Rights and the Proposed Intermediary Rules Both Miss the Mark
On October 22, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed a set of amendments to the existing Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules,...
