An essay in The Hindu on why the case concerning a broadcast by Sudarshan News is a chance for the Supreme Court to infuse clarity on hate speech exceptions under Indian law: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/define-the-contours-of-hate-in-speech/article32655176.ece#comments_32655176
Diluting the EIA process spells a path of no return
In The Hindu, a piece on the new draft EIA notification and why it’s likely to breed a culture of disregard for the environment: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/diluting-the-eia-process-spells-a-path-of-no-return/article32243585.ece
Are people in J&K citizens or subjects?
An op-ed co-written with Gautam Bhatia, in The Hindu, on the Supreme Court’s role in denying access to 4G Internet in Jammu and Kashmir: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/are-people-in-jk-citizens-or-subjects/article32165013.ece
The need for an anti-discrimination law
In The Hindu, a piece on how India is unique among democracies in that a constitutional right to equality is not backed by comprehensive legislation: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-need-for-an-anti-discrimination-law/article31828372.ece
An Equal Right to Freedom of Religion: A Reading of the Supreme Court’s Judgment in Sabarimala
An article in the Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal on Justice DY Chandrachud’s opinion in the Sabarimala case and its radical and potentially transformative interpretation of the Constitution’s freedom of religion clauses: http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/U-of-OxHRJ-J-An-Equal-Right-to-Freedom-of-Religion.pdf
A violation of right found, but no remedy given
On the Supreme Court’s quest for an identity, an essay in The Hindu: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-violation-of-right-found-but-no-remedy-given/article31643824.ece
Needed, greater decentralisation of power
An essay in the Hindu on how federal limitations are hampering the power of states to respond to Covid-19: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/needed-greater-decentralisation-of-power/article31293086.ece
Nowhere Man
A review of Aravind Adiga’s novel, Amnesty: https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/nowhere-man/
For a universal status of personhood
An essay in The Hindu on how the Foreigners Act instils a regime where there is presumption against citizenship and denies the weakest their most basic rights: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/for-a-universal-status-of-personhood/article31033851.ece
Liberty at the government’s whim
A piece in The Hindu on how a ruling of the J&K High Court on preventive detention stands as an antithesis of the Constitution’s basic function: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/liberty-at-the-governments-whim/article30785807.ece
