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Law and Psychology
March 16, 2017

The Role Of The Unconscious And Irrational In Law: A Psycho-Social Gaze

Many of us as lawyers or litigants may at times have witnessed or been a party to an irritable exchange between the judge and a lawyer in the court. All…
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Law and Psychology
July 4, 2016

Mother, Motherland and the Judicial Function: the Case of Kanhaiya Kumar

Factual Matrix Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the Students Union of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, India was arrested on charges of sedition for participating in an event…
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Psyche and Society
April 12, 2016

Beef, Murderous Rage, Public Lynching: A Look under the Surface

The rumours of beef being eaten, the murderous rage evoked and the public lynching in September 2015 of 58 year old Muslim man Aqlakh in Bisada village next to New…
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Law and Psychology
December 22, 2015

Trauma Survivors Meet the Law: Explorations in India

Evolving jurisprudence increasingly tries to take on board more and more areas of discrimination and disability in the quest for justice. The sensitizations to caste, gender, class and sexual orientation…
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Law and Society
October 20, 2015

The Perils of Practising Law in a Polarised Environment

The Jagdalpur Bar Association in Bastar, Chattisgarh recently passed a resolution barring “outsider” lawyers from appearing in courts, a move aimed at a group of courageous women lawyers functioning as…
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Musings and Reflections
July 6, 2015

Of the Bar, the Bench, the Couch, the Flag and Anxious ‘Love’

Coming from a background of left political activism in India, I would not have imagined going in for psychoanalysis. In the 1980s I had a flat mate in Mumbai, India…
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Psyche and Society
June 10, 2015

Sex workers: repositories of the ‘bad’?

The recent proposal by the Chairperson of India’s National Commission of Women to legalise sex work in India has sparked of a debate around the polarizing subject of prostitution. Sex…
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Law and Society
January 21, 2015

Judging the judiciary

India’s Supreme Court in the age of neoliberalism. The Supreme Court of India deals with a variety of matters ranging from the death penalty to promotion in services. Public Interest…
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Law and Society
January 20, 2015

The muddle of contempt laws in Judgements

Dhaka-based journalist David Bergman has been convicted of contempt over his blog on the Bangladesh War of Liberation. RAKESH SHUKLA argues for the law to be revised. Dhaka-based British journalist…
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Law and Society
November 18, 2014

For a law that liberates sex workers

By adopting a moral and paternalistic approach, laws governing sex work fail to address the rights of sex workers The proposal to legalise sex work by the Chairperson of the…
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