Law – Page 5 – Suhrith Parthasarathy

Safeguarding judicial autonomy

My essay in The Caravan Magazine on appointment of judges to India’s Supreme Court, and the need for greater judicial independence: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/books/appointment-only

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 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 piece in The Hindu’s editorial on why the retention of the death penalty speaks to a larger incoherence in India’s penology: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-muddled-thinking-on-punishment/article5131843.ece

A piece for The Caravan Magazine on the arcane rituals of judicial appointments in India: http://caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/code-honours

A piece for The New York Times’ India Ink on the dispute between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over the Mullaperiyar Dam: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/water-wars-in-indias-south/?_r=0