VASUNDHARA SIRNATE
Jallikattu and the Art of Legal Dodging
In mid-January, Tamil Nadu was witness to a popular youth protest against the Supreme Court’s ban on holding Jallikattu—an annual rural sport in which ...
Mapping and its Discontents: The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016
The new Geospatial Information Regulation Bill proposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs attempts to regulate the flow of digital and cartographic ...
Convictions should be based on fair procedure, not collective conscience: Aarushi Case Lawyer
How effectively does the criminal justice system in India work? Vasundhara Sirnate and Saptarshi Bhattacharya gleaned an insight into India’s ...
No Consistency in Delhi’s Approach to Kashmir: A.S. Dulat
Kashmir remains India’s unsolved puzzle even after six decades. Its history has thrown up strange paradoxes and challenges for policy makers in New ...
JNU Arrest: Not Just a Crackdown, It's a War on Democracy
Is the current tension between the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Indian government unique? In this article, Vasundhara ...
Can an Accord End an Insurgency?
Will the new framework agreement between the Indian government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) in Nagaland bring lasting ...
Students, Saffron and the State – Resistance at IIT Madras
Political movements involving students have raised ciritical issues at crucial moments of a country's history. The student protests in June 2015 at ...
When marriage is less than sacred
By appropriating female consent in sexual matters, misogyny denies women the right to stand up to sexual abuse from violent husbands.
How India Failed Aruna Shanbaug
The life and death of Aruna Shanbaug, comatose for over four decades after she was raped, calls for a reexamination of India's policies towards ...
What enables rape reporting?
The Nirbhaya agitation of 2012 not only removed the stigma surrounding rape but also gave women the hope that their complaint would be heard.
The banality of evil revisited
India’s Daughter, by telling us how particular rapists think, forces us to confront that this is what many men, from every demographic across the ...
Polls in the Time of Terror
The December 6 attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), during the Assembly elections that have so far witnessed high turnouts, has thrown ...