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Basic structure touchstone for anti-conversion laws

India, Nov. 5 -- As of August 2024, four years after Uttar Pradesh enacted its anti-conversion law, 1,682 people have been arrested and 835 criminal cases filed under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of ... Read More


Refugees in India: Rohingya case points to legal vacuum

India, Oct. 22 -- True character is revealed not in comfort, but in crisis. And India has passed that test before. Our tradition of sheltering the persecuted is neither recent nor accidental. In 1959,... Read More


How Puttaswamy exorcised the ghost of ADM Jabalpur

India, Sept. 10 -- In the long journey of India's constitutional democracy, few moments have tested its spirit as severely as the Emergency of 1975-77. And within that dark chapter, no judgement casts... Read More


The Lal Babu touchstone for the Bihar SIR exercise

India, Aug. 28 -- Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls is like a bank extinguishing your account and then demanding you prove it existed in the first place. Only, it is not ... Read More


Unfinished business of gender justice in India

India, Aug. 13 -- No history of gender justice laws in India can be written without drawing a direct, scarred line from the brutal assault on Bhanwari Devi in 1992 to the gut-wrenching tragedy of the ... Read More