The writer is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India.

January 25, 2025 07:00 IST
It is a resource so valuable for the human beings whose attention it captures that constitutional courts vie to regulate it and presidents strive to emancipate it
Sat, Jan 25, 2025
September 21, 2024 01:15 IST
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is an example of using the walk as an instrument of mobilisation, as is Gandhi’s, India’s most famous ‘walker’
Sat, Sep 21, 2024
August 10, 2024 07:10 IST
It reasserts that cardinal principle that is the backbone of the criminal justice system – that bail is the norm and jail the exception
Sat, Aug 10, 2024
July 20, 2024 07:21 IST
By providing for extended police custody, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita violates an undertrial’s right under Article 21 of the Constitution
Sat, Jul 20, 2024
July 06, 2024 07:42 IST
There is a need for law reform in postcolonial nations. But it must be in consonance with constitutional values
Sat, Jul 06, 2024
May 25, 2024 07:13 IST
They have all been victims of ‘deep fake’ videos. Clearly, the battle for integrity of electoral systems has now been taken into the digital world
Sat, May 25, 2024
April 20, 2024 08:00 IST
India’s ambitious universal adult franchise project, imagined and cemented during the harsh and violent years of Partition and nation formation, would come to fruition with the first general elections
Sat, Apr 20, 2024
April 06, 2024 08:30 IST
As this lawsuit weaves its way through the court, more such challenges for the law are likely to emerge
Sat, Apr 06, 2024
March 16, 2024 08:00 IST
The law gives an extraordinary classification of harm -- changing a person’s consciousness through manipulation or deception resulting eventually in harm being caused to others. Given fake news, targeted algorithms and the power of social media, this is an important definition
Sat, Mar 16, 2024
March 02, 2024 08:00 IST
With Nvidia’s rise, are GPUs the new oil of our time?
Sat, Mar 02, 2024
February 17, 2024 07:10 IST
The film helps appreciate that the law matters, criminalising queer people stigmatises them and forces them to lead a double life
Sat, Feb 17, 2024
February 03, 2024 08:00 IST
Water is probably the most increasingly scarce and yet eternally indispensable resource for the human species. That its scarcity would result in efforts to trade it or privatise its supply is unsurprising.
Sat, Feb 03, 2024
December 23, 2023 07:45 IST
Some requirements — safe public spaces, well-established training programmes, and a culture which encourages women to occupy space in our streets and in our parks
Sat, Dec 23, 2023
December 09, 2023 07:20 IST
Annual exercise of selecting a word of the year offers a handy guide to what was topmost on our minds, showing how language changes to reflect our lives
Sat, Dec 09, 2023
November 25, 2023 07:38 IST
If artificial intelligence can threaten the human species, then how must board members, as humans and as fiduciaries of a commercial entity, act?
Sat, Nov 25, 2023
November 04, 2023 07:41 IST
By the turn of the century, India will have declined in numbers and will have a substantial senior citizen composition. It must prepare
Sat, Nov 04, 2023
October 21, 2023 07:30 IST
Can anonymous artists or creators be proceeded against in court, and can they defend their interests in their work and reputation?
Sat, Oct 21, 2023
September 29, 2023 18:38 IST
We should not have invited Pakistan to play in India, especially after the grievous loss suffered by the families of our soldiers
Sat, Sep 30, 2023
September 16, 2023 07:30 IST
New Bill enables seizure of movable and immovable assets as ‘proceeds of crime’ under general criminal law — without any of the necessary procedural safeguards writes:
Sat, Sep 16, 2023
September 02, 2023 07:05 IST
With a vague definition and absence of procedural safeguards, inclusion of organised crime in general criminal law endangers not only common citizens, but also rule of law and right to a fair trial
Sat, Sep 02, 2023
August 19, 2023 07:02 IST
Bill to replace Code of Criminal Procedure has several laudable measures to protect citizens in criminal cases. They would be rendered meaningless if provision extending police custody stays
Sat, Aug 19, 2023
August 05, 2023 07:30 IST
SC decision on distinguishing games of skill from chance will shape taxation
Sat, Aug 05, 2023
July 22, 2023 07:00 IST
How different nations could legislate AI will be contingent on the underpinnings of their politico-legal systems. Chinese and American regulations suggest diverse trajectories before nations
Sat, Jul 22, 2023
July 08, 2023 07:40 IST
A vote for closing of a country could well mean a derailing of all that is good in an interconnected world -- where people, commerce and ideas move across borders
Sat, Jul 08, 2023
June 23, 2023 19:04 IST
As the wealthy demand unusual experiences, such as going into space or deep into the oceans, private companies could resort to using risky technology
Sat, Jun 24, 2023





