RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS: THE BALANCE EVERY DEMOCRACY NEEDS
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ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION IN INDIA
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REVISITING ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN MATRIMONIAL OFFENCES AND RISE OF GENDER INJUSTICE: A CASE COMMENTARY ON ARNESH KUMAR v. STATE OF BIHAR (2014) AND NEED OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MEN BILL, 2025
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Privacy as Law
Privacy is more than a locked diary; it is the legal space in which an individual remains free to think, choose, speak, and exist without becoming public property. This paper traces privacy from a social instinct to a multidimensional legal right encompassing physical, informational, decisional, and communicational autonomy. It explores its international recognition and India’s […]
Surrogacy in India: Rights, Regulation and Reproductive Justice
Surrogacy in India occupies a complex constitutional space where reproductive autonomy, bodily integrity, family, equality, and State regulation converge. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 seeks to prevent exploitation by permitting only altruistic surrogacy while imposing stringent eligibility conditions. Yet, restrictions on reproductive choices raise deeper questions about the extent of State control over family formation. […]
End‑to‑End Encryption: Privacy’s Last Line or a Legal Blindspot?
End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) stands at the intersection of digital privacy, cybersecurity, and modern law enforcement. By ensuring that only communicating users can access message content, it creates a digital “vault” protecting intimate conversations from intermediaries, corporations, and unauthorised surveillance. Yet this same architecture presents a legal challenge when investigators seek traceability or access to communications […]
Unplugging the 24/7 Workplace: The Right to Disconnect in the Digital Age
The digital workplace has dissolved the once-clear boundary between employment and personal life, transforming connectivity into an expectation of perpetual availability. This paper explores the Right to Disconnect as a necessary legal and human safeguard against this “24/7 workplace,” where notifications, emails, and after-hours demands silently erode rest, privacy, dignity, and mental well-being. It examines […]
THE ROLE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA
Legal education in India does more than increasing numbers of lawyers and judges in India. It’s one of the things that decides whether a constitutional democracy actually delivers or not what it has promises. The Constitution guarantees justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity to the people, and how well those guarantees hold up in practice depends […]
ONLINE DEFAMATION RECONCILING FREE SPEECH WITH THE RIGHT TO REPUTATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Defamation, at its core, protects an interest that predates the internet by centuries: a person’s reputation in the eyes of others. Section 499 of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code, and now Section 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”), defines defamation as the making or publishing of any imputation concerning a person, by words, […]
HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA: CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES, JUDICIAL EVOLUTION, AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
India’s human rights system is built upon a carved Constitution that ensures enforceable fundamental rights, a judiciary motivated to interpret these rights broadly, and a collection of statutory bodies established to oversee adherence. Over time, the Supreme Court has expanded Article 21 from a limited protection against arbitrary government actions to include rights to privacy, […]