Hyderabad, June 23 -- a plea of malice against a public authority must be specifically pleaded and proved with cogent material; courts will not infer an oblique motive from a pattern of adverse outcom... Read More
Hyderabad, June 22 -- Two treatises-Socio-spatial Consequences of the Disturbed Areas Act 1991 on Urbanizing Spaces in Gujarat by Shrivastava and Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas ... Read More
Hyderabad, June 19 -- The constitutional answer to the politics of inherited grievance is neither obscure nor difficult to discover. It lies in the circumstances in which the republic itself was conce... Read More
Hyderabad, June 15 -- The history of modern India is not merely a history of institutions, elections, constitutions and governments. It is also a history of memory. Nations, no less than individuals, ... Read More
Hyderabad, June 8 -- The Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, recently remarked at Oxford that the Supreme Court is developing a "Swadeshi Jurisprudence" rather than relying solely on "imported concept... Read More
Hyderabad, June 2 -- We learnt that in the afternoon of February 28, 2002, in Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad, a crowd armed with swords, iron rods and petrol bombs gathered outside a cluster of homes. I... Read More
Hyderabad, May 22 -- Some ideas arrive not as commentary but as diagnosis. Rohit Pajni's "The Shape of Reality," published on Substack, diagnoses institutional sclerosis. Pajni's thesis is devastating... Read More
Hyderabad, April 16 -- The framers of the Indian Constitution deliberately bequeathed a document that was "silently pluralistic," avoiding the rigid, often incendiary, ethnic categorisations found in ... Read More