India’s Cloud Computing Dilemma: Data Residency vs Data Sovereignty
India doesn’t have a cloud computing law. What it has instead is RBI circulars and the DPDP Act, patched together, and neither actually settles who controls your data once it’s stored. This paper untangles three ideas that keep getting collapsed into one: residency, localisation, and sovereignty. Data can sit on a server in Mumbai and […]
Regulated by Institution, Organized by Individual: India’s Media Law Meets the Group Chat
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned in July 2026, not because a newspaper investigation broke the story, but because the Cockroach Janta Party and student groups spent seven weeks protesting at Jantar Mantar, organising mostly through social media, after NEET-UG got cancelled over a paper leak. That timeline exposes a real gap in Indian media law. […]
The Constitutional Limits of Digital Justice: Evaluating ODR Through Articles 14 and 21
India’s legal regime is witnessing a swift move towards Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), fuelled by the policy pronouncements of the NITI Aayog in 2021 amidst the serious problem of a judicial backlog of more than 50 million cases in the country. Nevertheless, with government bodies and businesses making ODR a mandatory precondition of relief, there […]
The 180-Day Clock: How India’s New Mediation Act Changes Family Disputes
In this respect, the Mediation Act is a paradigm change in the dispute resolution environment in India, shifting from the adversarial process to a more organised and collaborative approach. The current paper critically analyses the effect of the Act on family/marital disputes, with special regard to the imposition of the 180 days’ statutory period. In […]
The Right to be Forgotten: Can You Actually Force Apps to Delete Your Data under the DPDPA?
The present paper examines the feasibility of the Right to Erasure prescribed by Section 12 of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023. Despite its official claim to be India’s adoption of the “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF), a deeper dive into implementing such a right as part of corporate processes exposes the struggle […]
Case Commentary – Shailendra Mani Tripathi v. Union of India (2026)
In Shailendra Mani Tripathi v. Union of India (2026), the Supreme Court of India was tasked with an important constitutional question relating to menstrual equity, in which the petitioner argued for a standardised national paid menstrual leave policy under Articles 15(3) and 21. Through judicial restraint, the court rejected the Public Interest Litigation (PIL), deciding […]
The Constitutional Limits of Digital Justice: Evaluating ODR Through Articles 14 and 21
India’s legal regime is witnessing a swift move towards Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), fuelled by the policy pronouncements of the NITI Aayog in 2021 amidst the serious problem of a judicial backlog of more than 50 million cases in the country. Nevertheless, with government bodies and businesses making ODR a mandatory precondition of relief, there […]
Analysis of Article 22 of India Constitution
Article 22 is incorporated in part 3 of Indian constitution, thereby because of this this Article is recoganized as a fundamental right of citizens. This article is closely related to individuals personal liberty. Here, Personal Liberty means civil and political rights[1] This article deals with protective right of Individuals from arrest and detention which impact […]
Role Of Bar Council in India
The Bar Council of India has an important role to play in shaping and regulating the legal profession in the country. It was established under the Advocates Act, 1961. It is the apex body for maintaining professional standards, discipline, and quality in legal education. This article discusses the history, organization, and role of the Bar […]
Article 19 of Indian Constitution
Fundamental rights are the heart of constitutional democracy and act as a check on arbitrary exercise of state power. Among them is Article 19 of the Constitution of India which occupies a special and unique position in guaranteeing a group of freedoms which are basic to the preservation of individual liberty and the effective working […]