Private Member’s Bill to amend the Preamble to the Constitution: An Explainer
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of the Rajya Sabha, K.J. Alphons, has sought to introduce a Private Member’s Bill ...
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Tracing the decline of India’s secularism through the highs and lows of judicial ambivalence
“The Constitutional guarantees of secularism and equal treatment of all religions have de facto been hollowed out and seriously undermined,” ...
Foreign national victim of domestic violence can file complaint in India, rules Rajasthan HC
Jodhpur, Nov 24 (PTI) The Rajasthan High Court has ruled that a foreign national who is a victim of domestic ...
Shifting the borders inland: Policing powers of the Border Security Force
Amidst the recent decision to increase the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force in West Bengal, Punjab and Assam, RAVI NAIR examines ...
India’s Abysmal Global Hunger Index rank violates right to life under Article 21
India’s poor rank in the Global Hunger Index is not only against the Supreme Court’s judgements that made the right ...
Gandhi: through a prism of Constitution, law and patriotism
Gandhi’s perspective on how the law must treat the citizens of a country has shaped the trajectory of the legal ...
‘Indianisation’ of the justice delivery system
In light of the recent remarks by the Chief Justice of India on the ‘Indianisation’ of the justice delivery system, VIKRAM ...
Limitations of the domestic apparatus: considering the vocabulary and practice of international human rights law in Kashmir
The people of the Kashmir valley, caught in a dispute between two State entities, have been casualties of violence since ...
The Indian judiciary and its not so holier-than-cow verdicts
In recent years, there have been increased instances of cows being granted reverence in judicial pronouncements. That many of the ...
Public spending on religious expenditure violates Constitutional principle of secularism
As India undergoes a crisis of sort relating to its secular identity, it must seek inspiration from the French model ...
Independent India’s Constitution is at threat from bigotry
To defend India, we must protect the idea of India as Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, and BR Ambedkar envisioned ...
Rethinking the Debate on Reservations
G. MOHAN GOPAL explains how the Constitution replaces the Brahmanic idea of merit with a modern, democratic, rational, scientific and constitutional idea ...
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