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The violence in Noida was not exceptional. It was the foreseeable consequence of studied silence towards worker grievances and a statutory regime that has made collective bargaining structurally ineffective and strike action procedurally impossible.

Ambedkars 1923 thesis at the London School of Economics dissected how the British manipulated Indias currency system to serve metropolitan interests. To date, it remains a crucial TWAIL contribution to our understanding of the global monetary system.

Two intellectuals divided by centuries, Ambedkar believed, sought the same end. But where the Marxian approach failed on the fundamental goal of liberty, equality and fraternity, Buddhas teachings showed the way.

Ambedkars 1940 address on Ranades 101st birth anniversary remains strikingly relevant today. Democracy cannot exist without social equality; hero-worship structurally weakens political life by concentrating power and stifling critique; and ideas fail without organisation and mass mobilisation.

Ambedkars The Untouchables argues that untouchability was not ancient, divine, or inevitable, but a historically dateable product of broken men, a sacralized cow, and Brahminism's war against Buddhism.

More than a century after Ambedkar stood before a Columbia seminar and argued that caste was not divine but constructed, his first major paper remains the most precise account of how caste was made, and why that matters for how it might be unmade.

As we conclude ninety years since the publication of one of the foundational texts on anti-caste literature Dr Ambedkars Annihilation of Caste this special series revisits some of the leading writings by the interdisciplinary scholar and social reformer, spanning across caste, philosophy, religion, and economy.

Ninety years after the publication of Ambedkars fiery undelivered speech for the Jat Pat Todak Mandal, that drew extensively on abolitionist thought, the project of forming a civic virtue in India remains unfinished, even as courts have continued undermining the materiality of caste-oppression.

As the Sabarimala Reference hearings completed a fortnight, senior advocates Jaideep Gupta, Sanjay Hegde, Vijay Hansaria, Meneka Guruswamy and Shadan Farasat for the respondents argued on the intent of the Constitution drafters to open temples to all classes and the perils of acceding to public morality.

A recent approval by the top Court for medical termination of a 15-year old girls pregnancy is the latest addition to a case-by-case jurisprudence pushing for greater reproductive autonomy. But without access to courts, abortion remains a mounting challenge for women tangled in the MTP Acts legal bottlenecks.

Could a government officer get into trouble simply for using the word bhagwa (saffron) in a Facebook comment?

As actor Vijay swears in as Tamil Nadus chief minister following days of uncertainty, we look back upon whether the Governor can actually act as an authority certifying legislative confidence despite prima facie proof of majority support. Could statutory clarity on the sequence of government formation avoid future instances of such receipt constitutionalism?

In December 2025, UPs Public Service Tribunal imposed punishment on a public servant for a Facebook post made in 2018. A formal warning, a transfer and a chargesheet have trailed the officer since. Glaringly, the tribunal has overstepped its own mandate, even violating the UP Government Servant Conduct Rules.

On the thirteenth day of hearings, Respondents pressed that the practice of excommunication in the Dawoodi Bohra community led to suffering across generations, and that morality in Article 25 must be construed as the Constitutions internal morality.

While Senior Advocate Khambata cautioned the Bench against conflating religious autonomy with denominational dominance and urged it to read constitutional silences not as vacuums, Senior Advocate Ramachandran brought before the Court the lived consequences of excommunication within the Dawoodi Bohra community.

While the Indian Young Lawyers' Association struggled to justify its standing before the Court, Senior Advocate Darius Khambata, appearing for a Parsi Zoroastrian woman denied entry into the agiary after marrying a Hindu man, argued that no religion can strip a believing woman of her faith simply because she married outside her community.

With hate speech events averaging four a day and a nine-year-old Law Commission recommendation still unheeded, the Supreme Court's refusal to act meaningfully leaves the Constitutions promise of equal protection suspended between two branches of government.

The former chief ministers decision to boycott proceedings in a matter he says is pre-decided against him borrows on Gandhis satyagraha at a moment of flickering trust upon the judiciary and the constitutional promise.