04-Jan-2024 2023: India’s Bad Laws, what a weaponised state means for individual freedoms and indigenous rights Will the 30 bills passed without due process in four parliamentary sessions further curtail India's future rights and freedoms
18-Dec-2023 Bail not Jail, India’s constitutional courts’ bumpy ride towards personal liberty A retrospective glance at 2023: Have courts effectively safeguarded the diminishing right to liberty for Indian citizens?
27-Nov-2023 Are Governors undermining democracy by holding up bills? Should concern mount over India's democratic functioning as Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala approach Supreme Court over routine constitutional procedures?
21-Nov-2023 How much reason is too much reason? Part III on Marriage Equality Judgement Uneven reasoning of the majority in denying the flow of rights
17-Nov-2023 Do all Indians have the right to a civil union? Understanding the Marriage Equality Judgement – Part II This part in the series examines what India’s Supreme Court has said on the Right to enter into a Union and the contradictions on this issue in the verdict.
08-Nov-2023 How fundamental are our rights? An examination of the judgement in the Marriage Equality Case: SC This analysis delves into the contradictions within the verdict, highlighting disturbing precedents contradicting earlier court decisions
30-Oct-2023 SC asks Union, state to eradicate manual scavenging completely, ensure compensation, rehabilitation and education The slew of guidelines issued in the petition direct implementation of acts prohibiting manual scavenging
14-Oct-2023 What does ‘Autonomy” to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 actually mean? Part IV of the analysis of Article 370
13-Oct-2023 ‘Reorganisation’ of J & K into two union territories, constitutional? Part III of the analysis of Article 370
12-Oct-2023 How permanent or temporary is Article 370? Part II of a series summarising arguments presented before the Supreme Court
11-Oct-2023 Article 367 an aid to understand the Constitution or a tool to amend it? Part I of Abrogation of Article 370
10-Oct-2023 How will India’s Supreme Court decide on same sex marriage? The arguments made on behalf of 18 couples were stiffly contested by an alliance of conservative bodies, representing faiths, with the most archaic being offered on behalf of the union of India
16-Sep-2023 How difficult is it to obtain Bail under the UAPA? Teesta Setalvad explains the nuances of this draconian act
09-Sep-2023 “Gross Constitutional Violations” | Supreme Court of India on Violence in Manipur Listen to Teesta Setalvad as she explains the Supreme Court's role following Manipur Violence
08-Sep-2023 A miss and a miss with the new Data Protection Law The act violates all accepted norms of privacy and data protection while also bestowing unchecked powers on the union of India
23-Aug-2023 SC allows rape survivor to abort her foetus, affirms that State should not interfere in decisions of reproduction Supreme Court bench reasserts a woman’s right to abortion, even as Gujarat High Court denies her relief