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Indian Law
August 27, 2019
Not Just ‘Dalits’: Other-Caste Indians Suffer Discrimination Too
By Tapasya
A young victim describes her experience with her caste identity in India.
August 31, 2018
A Crackdown on Dissent in India: What's Behind the Recent Arrests of Rights Activists
By Kajal Basu
Do the simultaneous raids on civil rights campaigners and lawyers indicate that the Indian government is willing to subvert democracy?
February 09, 2018
Love in the Time of Patriarchy: 'Love Jihad' in India
By Priyanka Borpujari
The murder of 23-year-old photographer Ankit Saxena reveals India’s dirty underbelly of religious and caste intolerance.
June 05, 2017
Indian State of Jharkhand Sees A Deadly Public Lynching Incident. What Now?
By Padmapriya Govindarajan
May 2017 saw disturbing instances of vigilante violence in India.
May 16, 2017
Nearly 5 Years on: Lessons From India's Infamous 'Nirbhaya' Gang Rape Case
By Padmapriya Govindarajan
Nearly five years after a brutal gang rape shook India, how has the Indian justice system dealt with rape?
May 16, 2017
India's Supreme Court Wades Into Controversial 'Triple Talaq' Practice
By Padmapriya Govindarajan
The apex court in India takes the issue of triple talaq head-on.
December 06, 2016
India's Supreme Court Has a Nationalist Moment
By Padmapriya Govindarajan
What was the Indian Supreme Court thinking?
October 14, 2016
New Bill and Amendment in India Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
By Padmapriya Govindarajan
The hope is that they set the foundation for weeding out the prevalence of these conditions entirely.
May 14, 2016
India's Government Wants to Control All Maps Depicting the Country
By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
Would this proposed legislation in India just be a big waste of time and government resources?
December 25, 2015
Is India’s Judiciary Out of Control?
By Akhilesh Pillalamarri
In India, the judiciary is hermetically sealed off from democratic checks and balances.
February 02, 2015
Lawsuit Pushes Uber off the Road in India
By Jack Detsch
A woman allegedly raped by her New Delhi-based driver has filed suit against the ride service giant.
December 25, 2013
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: India’s 30 Million Case Judicial Backlog
By Ram Mashru
India's legal system has the most backlogged cases of any in the world – what can it do to fix the problem?
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