Sujit Bhar

As the apex court upholds the Calcutta High Court’s order to resume the rural employment scheme in West Bengal while maintaining the right of the centre to keep probing irregularities, the judiciary has shown that governance cannot mean starvation as retribution. When the centre denies work and wages to the poorest for three years, it violates not just law, but humanity

As the second oldest bourse in the country—the CSE—decides to shut shop, one sees the rise of Mumbai’s monopoly and  a concentrated financial map of India

The alleged case of gang rape of an Odisha girl student in Durgapur creates another public outcry. But when the tables turn and the police throw out the gang rape theory, we are left with an issue far more serious: How India treats its girl child

The Reserve Bank of India has decided to give the rupee a bigger role, so that it can travel faster through the system. This may be a good thought, but it is somewhat impractical within the current financial and geopolitical realities of India

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When CJI Gavai insisted that his judgment against the forceful use of bulldozers by governments was the most satisfying for him, he would have been referring to a possible extrapolation of his order that can make sure that judicial processes do act as the balancing factor in any governmental overreach. The bulldozer is just symbolic

The challenges presented to the judicial system by generative AI and deepfakes are formidable: writing laws that can withstand technological change, accelerating judicial responses, and building global frameworks are immensely difficult. Denmark may have hit the nail on the head in this regard

An order of the Bombay High Court’s Kolhapur bench, granting anticipatory bail to a 26-year-old farmer accused of forcibly marrying and raping his 14-year-old niece, spawns questions galore. The utter confusion in the litigants’ submissions and the Court’s reaction scripts an interesting case study

The immense wealth that lies within Indian temples and other religious institutions have for long been eyed by political actors. This tug-of-war has existed over centuries and millennia through several conquests. A recent Madras High Court ruling shows how that tussle continues

The apex court is set to pronounce its verdict on the impasse within the All India Football Federation on September 1. Will it be possible for Indian football to escape the shadow of political interference?