Freedom

Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law seeks to prevent coercion and fraud, but its broad regulatory framework risks placing prayer, religious association and freedom of conscience under a cloud of suspicion.

The Constitution of India is extraordinarily resilient as a living, social document not because it lives in courtrooms, but because of the common citizen's deep and abiding engagement with it.

At the 28th D.S. Borker Memorial Lecture, Justice S. Muralidhar traced India’s judicial pendency crisis to dead cases clogging the docket, an opaque collegium, and a State that drives citizens to court while Senior Advocate Indira Jaising warned of a ‘shadow system’ undermining the Constitution.

The conflation of affirmative action and anti-atrocity law subjects persons of Dalit lineage exercising religious-freedom to a constitutional paradox and denies them the fundamental promise of social dignity

By branding dissenters as “Dimagi Naxals,” the Prime Minister revives the same colonial logic once used to silence Gandhi and threatens the constitutional freedoms India’s youth are fighting to defend.

The conflation of affirmative action and anti-atrocity law subjects persons of Dalit lineage exercising religious-freedom to a constitutional paradox and denies them the fundamental promise of social dignity

As India marks its 80th Independence Day, a disabled academic reflects on how constitutional silence, judicial charity, and political apathy has kept disabled and transgender lives outside the promise of Swaraj.

By warning the youth against mistaking freedom for unrestrained liberty, Doval invokes Lokmanya Tilak’s name even as his own record, from “civil society as a frontier of war” to the crackdown on dissenters, stands in direct contradiction to everything Tilak stood and suffered for.