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Almost no serious attempt has been made to acknowledge, document or institutionalise the contribution of those who have quietly sustained the daily functioning of Indian courts for generations.

Being watched is not the same as being seen to act justly.

Uneven implementation of virtual courts risks becoming one more axis of inequality layered on top of the existing rural-urban and rich-poor divides in access to justice.

The nationwide recruitment freeze is not just an administrative failure; it stands in direct defiance of two decades of settled Supreme Court jurisprudence.

The Constitution permits unelected individuals to be appointed as ministers, but only as a temporary exception that cannot be renewed through reappointment.

The remedy does not lie in denying bail to the powerful; it lies in extending, with equal energy, the same solicitude to the ordinary undertrial.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan is emerging as one of the more outspoken voices on the Bench of the Supreme Court of India.

The settled principles of Indian trade secret law were not designed for generative AI.

The fix is not to abandon publishing, but to stop treating it as a substitute for practical competence.

The sedition trials that Bal Gangadhar Tilak faced and the imprisonments he endured, greatly contributed to India attaining freedom in the next three decades.