An edit-page essay for The Hindu on why India needs a more robust animal protection law: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/Looking-beyond-our-own-species/article17284857.ece
Why Allowing Corporates to Invoke Criminal Defamation Against Critics is a Bad Idea
A piece for The Wire on how the Supreme Court missed a chance to bring the criminal defamation law within the frameworks required of a liberal, egalitarian state: https://thewire.in/100836/priya-pillai-criminal-defamation-supreme-court/
2016: The Supreme Court’s report card
A year-end essay on the Supreme Court and its lack of moral courage: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/2016-The-Supreme-Court%E2%80%99s-report-card/article16965545.ece
Contours of a challenge
An edit-page article in The Hindu on why the Supreme Court has an important role to play in reviewing India’s new demonetisation policy: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/Contours-of-a-challenge/article16737935.ece
The end of the origin
A review of Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s book on abolishing the death penalty: http://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/The-end-of-the-origin/article16699829.ece
Blocked out
A piece for The Caravan Magazine’s November issue on the dangers of allowing corporations to invoke criminal defamation laws: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/blocked-out-corporations-defamation
Hindutva at the hustings
For The Hindu, an edit-page essay on why the Supreme Court should re-visit its definition of Hindutva, rendered more than 20 years ago: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/hindutva-at-the-hustings/article9272291.ece
