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Ambedkar's sadness that caste count was excluded in 1951 caste census is reflected in the half-hearted manner of conducting caste count in 2026 census by dispensing with drop down menu of castes

Despite establishing a National Tribunals Commission, the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2026 retains significant executive control over the institutions meant to be insulated from it.

The victims of the 2024 Bangladesh violence deserve genuine accountability. But the proceedings against Sheikh Hasina raise cumulative concerns about the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunals constitutional foundation, judicial independence, evidentiary scrutiny and appellate safeguards. India must note that its refusal to extradite need not mean abandonment of accountability.

A Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant declined to disturb the core reasoning of its May 2025 ruling on judicial recruitment, but eased the practice requirement from three years to one, layering in institutional training and structured clerkship.

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge R. Subhash Reddy, will examine allegations ranging from the use of pellet guns and lathi charges to surveillance and violence against female protesters, alongside counter-allegations of property damage and injuries to police personnel.

Despite research showing that womens complaints under the Domestic Violence Act are overwhelmingly genuine, courts and lawmakers continue to entertain claims of misuse while the law itself remains starved of the sensitisation, procedure, and political will needed to make it work.

The ex-Bangladesh PMs return following a death sentence imposed in absentia brings renewed attention to the International Crimes Tribunals troubled record on fair trial guarantees, retrospective criminalization and capital punishment, while raising difficult questions for India over extradition.

A nine-judge bench, by majority, has refined but not overturned the triple test in Bangalore Water Supply for what counts as an industry under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

As AI value shifts from source code to trained model weights, copyright and trade secret law struggle to keep pace, leaving contract drafting as the last real line of defence

The Sessions Courts order, which conflates political solidarity with criminal intent, denies anticipatory bail to two TISS students as it treats slogans demanding the release of undertrials Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, and homage paid to the late Professor G.N. Saibaba, as grounds for suspicion.

Every year, NIRF, India's premier university ranking system under the Education Ministry, publishes a list that students trust and institutions build their reputations around. An RTI based investigation by The Leaflet on Indias largest minority varsity now shows that it misrepresented data and NIRF simply accepted it on face value.

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

The new Amendment turns states plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centres discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.

Concluding a flip flop of conflicting coordinate bench decisions, the Vanashakti III judgment struck down the office memorandum permitting ex-post facto breaches of environmental law. Read carefully though, it favours regularisation, providing an intricate blueprint for it.

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.

A generation raised entirely inside the Modi cult, fed thirteen years of propaganda and the vilification of Muslims, has turned against it through the simple, stubborn refusal of young minds to be conditioned.

Nehru told a burning country that it had kept a tryst. A tryst has two parties, and we have never once been careful about naming the second.

Ambedkar argued once that every act of independent thinking puts the stable world in peril. The Gen-Z protests leading up to Indias 80th independence day have certainly rattled the stable world of the autocrats, who for long have distorted the ideal of swaraj.

An insult meant to mock unemployed youth instead became the Gen Z protests unlikely banner and along the way, revealed something the Constitution asked of us decades ago: not just liberty and equality, but the harder, gentler work of fraternity.

Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.