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The Tower of Babel

Since March 24, 2020, when the countrywide lockdown was imposed, the central government has been commanding, ordering and directing state governments and the people of India to do its bidding to cont...

Reforms & Research: The Way Forward

Justice Deepak Gupta said that for real justice, the scales of justice should be weighted in favour of the poor. This requires fresh ideas on legal reform, for which freedom to question judges is a s...

Justice Deepak Gupta: A Speaking & Listening Judge

For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, a virtual farewell was given to a sitting judge and aired live on a TV channel. Justice Deepak Gupta, who was a judge of the Court for three ye...

Force Majeure Clause: An Act of God

The BCCI, the world’s most extravagant cricket board, sent a notice to its official broadcasters, Star India, on April 7, 2020, reportedly activating the force majeure clause. This was to safeguard i...

Covid-19 & Critical Care: Ethical Dilemmas

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly increased the demand for acute and critical care services. This also means that there should be an increase in the capacity to provide care for more patients, ...

Taxing the Tippler

As the Covid-19 lockdown entered its third phase in India, the clamour from a large section of the population which depended on liquor grew louder and louder. How would they drown their sorrows every...

Cleaning the Augean Stables

The independence of the judiciary is an essential part of the basic structure of the Constitution of India. While from a constitutional perspective, “in­dependence” of the judiciary refers to in­depe...

Dilution of Labour Laws: Is this the package?

In a period when people are locked in their houses for more than two months and the governments very badly failed to provide even basic human needs such as food, shelter, security etc., to the poor l...

Is AI a More Sustainable Option Than Human Intelligence In Delivering Faster And Effective Justice In India?

Artificial intelligence is believed to have the ability to function and perform like that of human intelligence and possess the capability of reasoning, arguing, perceiving and acting rationally...

A Beautiful Mind

MANY years ago, as a psychologist working in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, I had asked the inmates if their sleep was disturbed and if so, how much. All of them said that their sleep was severely disturbed.

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