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In the June edition of Staying Alive, a survivor recounts how a lawyer told her the PWDVA offers no remedy without physical abuse, and why twenty years after the Act recognised emotional and economic violence, courts still treat a bruise as the only proof that counts.

Professor Amita Dhandas biography of Justice M.N. Rao traces his many careers and the judicial spine that held them together.

Following mass exclusions from the electoral rolls, the West Bengal government has made SIR inclusion mandatory for access to PDS benefits. Does linking citizenship to welfare and labour benefits have any statutory basis? And how can the judiciary intervene?

In its advisory opinion last month, the International Court of Justice augmented the right to strike to a core labour right under Convention 87. Its reliance on relevant rules of international law in the ruling is a positive step towards bringing international law under a more unified system.

The Supreme Courts Draft AI Regulations promise human primacy, transparency, and accountability. But a regulation is only as strong as the institution that must live by it. The harder question is whether Indias judiciary is institutionally ready to keep those promises.

The Supreme Courts AI Committee has released a draft regulatory framework for the use of artificial intelligence in Indian Courts that foregrounds human primacy, institutional accountability, and the irreducible role of the judge. Here is an in-depth account of what the Draft Regulations say, how they are structured, and why they matter.

Trans and disability rights movements confront common challenges when it comes to the Indian states unequal treatment of marginalised bodies in its nationalist project, the judiciarys liberal legalism, and the emphasis on a Swadeshi jurisprudence. Our Pride Month special explores the possibility of a solidarity of counter-politics.

ON JUNE 19, 2026, the Delhi High Court in a significant ruling in the case of Telegram FZ LLC & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors . upheld the order passed by the Union government pertaining to the temporary blocking of Telegram, the cloud based social media and instant messaging platform, until June 22, 2026. The judgement was pronounced by Justice Tejas Karia. On May 22, 2026 , the National Testing Agency (NTA) had informed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) about the mi

Biopower, as Michel Foucault explained, is the technology by which the modern State ceased merely punishing bodies and began administering them. Some lives were deemed productive, legible, worth investing in, while others were, in his phrase, let die, through the quieter violence of exclusion, exposure and abandonment. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, which became a law in March, is a near-perfect illustration of this logic in motion.

The petition seeks takedown of YouTube videos, social media posts, and online articles falsely claiming seventy-five judges and Union ministers participated in the Second International Bar and Bench Badminton Championship in London.