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In May 2021, as deaths from shortages of medical oxygen soared across Uttar Pradesh, a two judge bench of Allahabad HC rapped the government for inaction. An excerpt from journalist Jyoti Yadav’s new book recounts how healthcare misgovernance marked one of the pandemic’s darkest chapters.
Jyoti Yadav
Staff Writer
Women’s reservation is the headline. But behind the special session’s centrepiece, lies a sweeping restructuring of electoral boundaries and parliamentary seats that could redraw India’s political map – and who gets to draw it.
In January 2025, the Trump administration's reversal of PEPFAR and USAID funding sent shockwaves across sub-Saharan Africa. From surging infections to abandoned human rights-based care, the consequences, and the complicity, demand a reckoning.
Does the term ‘morality’ in Articles 25 and 26 mean ‘public morality’? We decode the Union’s submissions last week that challenged the Supreme Court’s handling of the notion of ‘constitutional morality’.
Appearing in person, Delhi’s ex-chief minister recounted several instances that raised doubts of biasness by Justice Sharma in the Liquor Policy case even as the Solicitor General dismissed them as 'fantasy'.
The lecture, dedicated to the memory of Senior Advocate Ashok H. Desai, invoked imagination and construction of India’s past and future legal order by two speakers from two different generations.
They regulate the commanding heights of the economy. Yet, nobody knows their name. They have made their peace with this, mostly.
Last week, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta pressed to discard ‘constitutional morality’ - a ‘vague and subjective’ notion - that had expanded judicial review. But from M.P. Singh and Upendra Baxi to Justice Chandrachud, a long tradition of thought has challenged this framing.
We review the arguments on the Sabarimala Reference last week that grappled with the question of just how much the State can interfere in the affairs of religious communities and whether ‘English’ legal concepts adequately captured Indian religious life.