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Disha Ravi, a young climate activist arrested for sharing a “toolkit” on social media, was granted bail by a Delhi court on February 23.

Government's game of prosecution

The present dispensation uses prosecution as a tool to silence critics and opponents in a way that makes the legal process a punishment in itself.

Diplomacy in militancy

The book, about the need for negotiations and talks, abounds with an astonishing number of case studies in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Pravin Togadia, former working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. According to him, the entire world was once Hindu.

RSS as Vishwaguru

The RSS’ drive to position India as preacher to the world encapsulates a long-term political programme of eliminating political dissent within the cou

Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik after a round of questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a probe in a money laundering case linked to the death of the actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in Mumbai on August 10, 2020.

Trial by media flouts principle of fair trial

The judicial system is weakened if the media are allowed to conduct trials of accused persons, and the principle of fair trial on the basis of evidenc

M.K. Gandhi and Maulana Azad in an undated photograph. Both were tried for sedition under colonial rule.

How a Supreme Court judgment brought back the sedition law in India

K.M. Munshi’s amendment had removed “sedition” from the Constitution, arguing that its scope was too broad to be compatible with free speech in a demo

Police taking the journalist Siddique Kappan and three others to a court in Mathura on October 7.

The Supreme Court sets at naught the solemn guarantee of the writ of habeas corpus

In the case of the journalist Siddique Kappan, the Supreme Court abnegates its own responsibility by treating the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts

A counsel par excellence

A biography that holds lessons for lawyers of today. At a time when unbridled power holds sway in India, Eardley Norton’s words, written a century ago

An activist holding up and also wearing a face mask that reads “Hum Sab Khalid Saifi” at a press conference over police investigations into the Delhi riots of February, at the Press Club of India in Delhi on September 16. Delhi Police arrested the activist Khalid Saifi in June under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the communal violence in Northeast Delhi in February.

UAPA: India's anti-India Act

Humble though its beginnings were, the UAPA has now grown into a poisonous tree and is clearly modelled on the United States’ McCarthyite Un-American

The Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple and the Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura.

RSS' next target - Mathura

The Sangh Parivar carries on with its project of using religion to further political mobilisation. This time its target is what it calls Krishna Janma

Nepalese activists, who staged a protest against a blockade of supplies from India, being detained by the police outside the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu in December 2015. India was believed to have imposed a month-long blockade to force changes in Nepal’s draft Constitution. New Delhi did not officially admit to having done so.

India’s double standards on human rights: Violations at home even as its diplomacy preaches liberty

India has consistently followed double standards on human rights and people’s right to self-determination and refused to brook questions on its own co

Arundhati Roy with Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar at a demonstration against the government in front of the Supreme Court in May 2006.

A case for a new approach to contempt of court

A look at two court cases reflecting two contrasting approaches to the subject of contempt of court. One upholds free speech, the other stymies honest

Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power was enabled by Gemany’s former royals and a conservative aristocracy.

How the powerful turn bad

Stories of bad emperors of past ages show how the acquisition of power may not so much corrupt as allow our own worst qualities to slide out and harm