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India, Law & Political Structure
Essays on Indian law, dissent, political structure, sovereignty, caste, and state power.
Essays
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A long-form social criticism essay on the commercialization of child religious figures in India, the psychological economy that sustains it, and the cost it imposes on childhood, science, and public reasoning.
An unflinching indictment of India's district and subordinate courts — their corruption, casteism, nepotism, and institutional rot — and a reckoning with the Supreme Court leadership that refuses to confront it.
A legal-political analysis of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence, the architecture of delayed justice, the drift of majoritarian statecraft, and the limited but real risk of Khalistan's fringe return.
A legal-political analysis of Umar Khalid's UAPA prosecution, repeated bail denials, and what the case reveals about dissent, minority vulnerability, and pretrial punishment in India.
A long-form essay on layered sovereignty in South Asia, showing how courts, chiefs, estates, and treaty-bound states governed as semi-autonomous units before modern constitutional unification.
A long-form legal and political essay on Kunal Kamra’s public career, the escalation from threats to formal state action, and what his cases reveal about speech, power, and institutional pressure in India.
A sharp legal-political essay on protest, preventive detention, and what the Sonam Wangchuk case reveals about the Indian state and the narrowing space for dissent.
A sharper, simpler argument about wrongful imprisonment in India, the anti-terror cases that consume decades, and the cruelty of release without compensation.
A political essay on manual scavenging, hazardous sewer labour, and the constitutional hypocrisy of caste in modern India.
A sharper, simpler political essay on what Sikh-Muslim-Hindu partition debates reveal about the Indian Constitution, centralization, and the limits of Indian pluralism.
A structured review of long-incarceration acquittal and discharge cases in India, with emphasis on compensation gaps, recurring investigative failures, and institutional reform.
A constitutional, historical, and comparative analysis of partition proposals framed around Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu lines in India.