Today's ICJ decision in Kulbhushan Jhadav's case serves to remind us how crucial it is to take recourse (and timely recourse) to international adjudicatory mechanisms to decide international issues....

Yesterday, I wrote that the ongoing Karnataka controversy represents a breakdown of constitutional conventions. This breakdown creates a space for inevitable judicial intervention – but a space that...

The Supreme Court walked a tight rope to maintain 'constitutional balance' in the Karnataka MLAs' case.The rebel MLAs wanted their resignations to be accepted fast by the Speaker and pleaded that...

It has long been observed that the smooth functioning of parliamentary democracy depends upon constitutional conventions. Put simply, a constitutional convention refers to a set of uncodified norms...

Out of the fifty-two countries that recognize marital rape as a crime, India is not one. The Indian laws do not see a husband as having the potential to violate the sexual autonomy of his wife. The...

The Chief Justice's Court of the Supreme Court witnessed an exchange of fierce arguments on Friday in the Karnataka MLA Case.The matter at hands of the 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court was whether...

Often individuals employed in the legal industry complain of long and unregulated work hours. For most young lawyers living alone or for those who cannot afford the help, unregulated work hours mean...

India is a land of diversity comprising of individuals from different communities, backgrounds, religions etc. What one eats, how one speaks, differs from region to region. In this diversity, we...

In apparently a laudable and bold move headlines that 'SC will depute CBI, police officials to curb graft in registry' greet us. The Chief Justice of India has decided to draft in Senior...

Though heavily criticized by the proponents of civil liberties, and also by the Law Commission of India which recommended its repeal on the ground that the provision is most often used as tool to...

Elections are a mechanism to hold the government accountable. They are viewed as means to ensure that the citizens' interests are properly represented in the democratic process. The Constitution of...

The intense debate on the Coastal Road in Mumbai has often communicated the sense that this is just one of those never-ending arguments of the environment v/s development. While the environment...

'And then they had me, stripped me, battering my teeth into my throat till I swallowed my own blood. My voice was drowned in the roar of their voices, and my black wet body slipped and...

'Our Constitution must not be a dictatorship but must be a Constitution in which there is a parliamentary democracy, where Government is all the time on the anvil so to say, on its trial responsible...

It's a coincidence that the CEC's rejection of RTI request for disclosure of dissent came on the 44th Emergency Day in violation of the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression under...