FINANCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES IN INDIA: THE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
This paper starts from a real conversation – interviewing a house help and her friends about their experience with UPI – which revealed a gap between how financial inclusion is described in policy documents and how it’s actually lived. Having a bank account or a UPI-linked phone doesn’t automatically mean someone feels confident using it […]
IMPACT OF GST ON MSMES AND INDIA’S FORMAL ECONOMY
MSMEs make up close to 30% of India’s GDP and employ around 20 crore people, so how GST affected them isn’t a niche question – it’s close to the center of the economy. This paper moves past the “one nation, one tax” slogan to look at what actually happened: the promise of simplified compliance and […]
DATA PROTECTION LAWS AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: BALANCING PRIVACY
Every online action – a search, a purchase, a scroll – leaves behind personal data that companies now use for everything from ad targeting to loan approvals. This paper compares how the EU’s GDPR, the US’s patchwork of state laws (led by California’s CCPA), and India’s own Digital Personal Data Protection Act try to regulate […]
COMPETITION LAW IN INDIA’S DIGITAL ECONOMY: REGULATING BIG TECH PLATFORMS
Competition law was built for a world of cartels and price-fixing, not free products like Google Search or WhatsApp that dominate markets without charging users a rupee. This paper looks at why India’s Competition Act 2002 struggles to catch up with digital markets, where power comes from data and network effects rather than price. It […]
LEGAL AID IN INDIA
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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. […]