Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the ...

The death of a 22-year-old in Kerala after spousal abuse reveals how domestic violence—99% of cases which go unreported and reached unprecedented levels during the pandemic—is ignored. India’s focus ...

The withdrawal under social media pressure of a Tanishq ad that depicts an interfaith marriage tells us that even in modern India some alliances continue to be out-of-bounds. Provisions in a law that ...

The chronology of the various pieces of state legislation shows that cow protection laws have become harsher in India over time. And the meaning of the laws have taken them farther and farther away ...

Exclusion, segregation of Muslim tenants are the norm even in India’s most diverse, cosmopolitan cities, reveal findings of a three-year study on discrimination in housing. From owners to brokers, ...

Adivasi rights defender, a former fellow of a prestigious prime ministerial programme, and son of a police official, Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima-Koregaon 11’, accused of spreading Maoist ...

A software engineer who turned to history to make sense of modern politics, Sharjeel Imam, 33, is accused under 73 sections of the law in cases filed against him by five state police forces. He spoke ...

For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...

As India’s men migrate in the millions, ‘left-behind women’ keep India’s rural farm sector running. But they have no liberty, land rights or even the acknowledgement that they are employed. The story ...

Six sedition cases during the farm protests; 25 during anti-CAA protests; 22 after the Hathras gangrape; 27 after Pulwama: Our study of sedition cases over the last decade reveals a 28% rise in such ...

Ignoring project reports and bypassing its own environmental laws, India’s government is set to clear 12 infrastructure projects and cut 270,000 trees in the Western Ghats, already fragmented into ...

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, we analyse ...