Law

In some parts of India, a girl’s life ends before it begins. The technology that was developed to detect fetal abnormalities, ultrasound, amniocentesis, was repurposed, quietly and lethally to identify female fetuses and terminate them. By the time of the 2001 census, India’s child sex ratio had fallen to 927…

In November 2003, Satyendra Dubey, a young engineer working on India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway project, sent a letter to the Prime Minister’s Office exposing widespread corruption in the project’s execution. He asked that his identity be kept secret. Within days, the letter had been forwarded with his CV attached. On…

Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people.” Justice Potter Stewart‘s words, cited by the Supreme Court of India, capture why media freedom is not just a legal right but a democratic necessity. In a country as vast, diverse, and complex as India, the media is…

Our colleges of law do not hold a place of high esteem either at home or abroad, nor has law become an area of profound scholarship and enlightened research.” These words, said by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan decades ago, remain uncomfortably relevant today. Despite the proliferation of law schools across India…