Suhrith Parthasarathy

The politics of quota and merit

My article in The OPEN Magazine on the Supreme Court’s judgment commuting the death sentence awarded previously to three men for conspiring and murdering the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/this-lethal-lottery

For The Indian Express, a short piece on why the present system of selecting judges to India’s higher judiciary is a shambles: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-right-judge-for-the-job/99/

An op-ed in The Hindu, co-authored with Goutham Shivshankar, on why those sentenced to death are also deserving of the due process of law: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/condemned-to-die-but-not-to-wait/article5653592.ece

A piece for the Sunday Guardian reviewing Alex Ferguson’s autobiography: http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/alex-ferguson-my-autobiography

A piece for The Caravan on the Supreme Court’s judgment upholding the constitutionality of Section 377, IPC, which effectively criminalizes consensual sexual acts “against the order of nature”: http://caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/and-justice-none#sthash.1XBMrath.dpuf

My piece in the December issue of The Caravan Magazine on how political ownership curtails press freedom in India: http://caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/broken-estate

My op-ed in The Hindu on illegal surveillance by the State of Gujarat and the slipping standards of privacy in India: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/surveillance-and-its-privacy-pitfalls/article5376464.ece