A piece in The Hindu on the Supreme Court’s judgment upholding a patently discriminatory Kerala liquor law: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/keralas-liquor-policy-all-in-the-spirit-of-equality/article8061657.ece
Category: Law
For a morally conscious government
An op-ed in The Hindu on the need for greater governmental accountability for losses caused due to the floods in Chennai: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/tn-governments-role-in-flood-relief-during-chennai-rains/article7958670.ece
An anti-constitutional judgment
A critique of a Supreme Court judgment that found unconstitutional the National Judicial Appointments Commission: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/njac-verdict-an-anticonstitutional-judgment/article7819287.ece
A deeply flawed verdict
A piece for the Mumbai Mirror on a Supreme Court judgment that delivers a huge blow to the principle of seperation of powers: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/A-deeply-flawed-verdict/articleshow/49424953.cms
Access at the cost of net neutrality?
My essay for The Hindu on net neutrality and the right to access the Internet: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/access-at-the-cost-of-net-neutrality/article7735242.ece
The flawed reasoning in the Santhara ban
For The Hindu, an op-ed on a Rajasthan High Court judgment, which substantially weakens the right to religious freedom: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-flawed-reasoning-in-the-santhara-ban/article7572183.ece
Final Word
A piece in the August issue of The Caravan magazine on how the judiciary has misappropriated the phrase “collective conscience” in death penalty cases: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/final-word-collective-conscience
One down, more to follow
A piece (including a short video interview) on the verdict concerning corruption in the Indian Premier League by a Supreme Court-appointed committee: http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/898845.html
Emulating the U.S.’s rainbow moment
My op-ed in The Hindu on why Justice Kennedy’s opinion recognising a right to same-sex marriage ought to reverberate in India too: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/emulating-the-uss-rainbow-moment/article7368040.ece
Critical Judgment
A piece in The Caravan Magazine on how judgments of the Supreme Court are often muddled by vague prose: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/critical-judgment-courts-vague-prose
Suhrith Parthasarathy 