If you were to take a walk in any of the cities or towns of Kerala this past Thursday or Friday, you would see a higher than usual...

The 2019 General elections witnessed the incumbent dispensation being re-elected with a larger majority, a first for  a non-Congress...

Voting. Something that I have been looking forward to doing for a long, long time. My first election related memory is me accompanying my...

Members of every profession tend to aggrandize themselves, and attempt to portray themselves as the basis for everything. Lawyers,...

It is a by word that gets quoted often, whenever an insolent or uncivil remark is made by a Politician, to say that this is a “new low in...

Politics is essentially about Power. Politics about wielding power, exercising it and maintaining it. Politics is about power; it is...

One of the most enduring presuppositions in the Indian Historical narrative surrounding the 1857 Revolt or the First War of Independence...

wrote an article regarding the origins of Article 26 of the Constitution of India. The article is a well written one, and should ideally...

This post is a reproduction of the remarks I had prepared for the meeting of the NUALS Constitutional Law Discussion Group on 27/08/2018...

A still from the film Gandhi (1982) “There are unjust laws as there are unjust men” ~ from the film Gandhi (1982) Background:This article...

This post is the reproduction of the remarks I had prepared for the meeting of the NUALS Constitutional Law Discussion Group held on...

or How to win after being massacred on the battlefield, holding out with 120 Soldiers against 35,000 Takeda Shingen, the fearsome daimyo...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the third and last unifier of Japan. Image source: sumpu.net Introduction Each and every single moment in the past has...

It is not unusual for me to ‘miss’ someone. Those people I really feel connected with, whom I feel the most happy around are people whose...

It’s not a sight that we see often, but the Conservative Icon and the Liberal favorite fall on the same side of one issue:...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board recently announced that they are planning to open a Shariat ‘court’ in every single district in...

An interesting question has been bothering me for quite a few days. Namely, what happened to the Russian Aristocracy after the Russian...

No, certainly not. The recent controversy over a painting, which many claimed to be Sri Krishna showing the Eid moon, exposes the...

This is an oft-repeated theme, something that has been written about profusely by authors of various shades. It is a theme that is very...

I have written a series of blogposts here and articles on Swarajya dealing with the issue of Free Speech. It is a complex issue that...