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According to former High Court Justice S Muralidhar, to whom the book is dedicated, quizzing nurtures curiosity and curiosity is vital for any democracy to thrive.

The distance between what ex gratia offers and what law requires is not a rounding error; it is a gap the current system is organised to maintain.

The article examines the principle of systemic integration under Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention and argues that the doctrine reflects a deeper commitment to philosophical holism within inte ...

Sometimes, the path to equality begins with something as basic and as essential as a room of one’s own.

Section 69A and the March 2026 draft IT Rules have transformed India's online-speech regime into an expansive, secrecy-driven architecture that undermines Shreya Singhal's safeguards.

The agreement-centric Section 3 has served Indian competition law well against human cartels, but is ill-suited to autonomous algorithmic coordination.

The woman who was promised the protection of the law and discovered at the police station, in the courtroom, in her own home, that the promise was notional, is not asking for a new statute.

An Indian passport, validly issued by the Indian State, preceded by declaration & the State's own satisfaction of citizenship to a person it has already determined to be Indian, should be sufficient p ...

Why doing “nothing” after law school may not be nothing at all.

A steadied client is a case that survives; a frightened, uninformed one is a case quietly dying in the next adjournment.