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Without safeguards, SIR may begin a long process of suspicion, exclusion, trial and potential statelessness.

The present framework taxes expected rent, even when recovery is doubtful and conditions relief on procedural compliance rather than substantive reality.

Courts routinely inquire whether a marriage has been consummated, but seldom whether such consummation was voluntary.

Students are not abandoning classrooms because they lack discipline; they are abandoning them because the traditional Indian law classroom has become pedagogically obsolete.

Open justice was never intended to transform judicial proceedings into consumable content.

Strict timelines, improved warrant execution, financial disclosure by accused persons and stronger interim compensation mechanisms may restore some effectiveness to the system.

Every High Court must establish dedicated election benches so that assigned judges can complete election petitions without competing docket demands.

How a recent Supreme Court referral could come in the way of the IBBI’s latest amendments to the personal guarantor insolvency framework.

The Supreme Court addressed the question of the Bihar SIR’s legality but did not substantially engage with its democratic implications.

Until a crucial distinction is understood by the people shaping India's arbitration landscape, the reform agenda will continue to be built around the wrong question.