When the prime minister visits the chief justice, the public does not simply see a meeting; it sees, in the background, the spectre of Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s Rajya Sabha seat, Justice P.N. Bhagwati’s silence during the Emergency and Justice Arun Mishra’s fawning adulation of Modi.

With all the outrage and debate that the remission has prompted, it is important to remember that at the centre of it stands a survivor negotiating with her lived trauma and harm every day.

The Israeli spyware snooping scandal in the latest example of how India is no exception when it comes to common patterns of persecution and intimidation of lawyers working on human rights issues.

In two important early-20th-century cases, women argued that they too were ‘persons’ under the Legal Practitioners Act.

Is it morally right or legally permissible for a government to insist on the waiver of fundamental rights for accessing benefits?