An essay in The Hindu on the Supreme Court and why it must intervene in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/fencing-out-the-voter-in-bihars-poll-roll-preparation/article69820024.ece
In The Hindu, a piece on a Supreme Court judgment which affirms a constitutional truth: governors of states are constrained by legal norms and democratic principle; they ought to act as constitutional sentinels, upholding the values of representative democracy: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-governors-conduct-and-a-judgment-of-significance/article69446757.ece
An essay in The Hindu on why any meaningful reform of the collegium system is possible only when the government stops stonewalling proposals, on arbitrary and often undisclosed grounds: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-collegium-and-changes-it-may-still-be-early-days/article69069369.ece
A piece in The Hindu on the debates in the UK over assisted dying and how they can animate similar movements across the word: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-long-and-complex-road-to-assisted-dying/article68974096.ece
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
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
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
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
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
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
Suhrith Parthasarathy 