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The new Amendment turns states plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centres discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.

As India marks its 80th Independence Day, a disabled academic reflects on how constitutional silence, judicial charity, and political apathy has kept disabled and transgender lives outside the promise of Swaraj.

Ambedkar warned that even the best constitutions can fail if those who uphold them fall short. At Jantar Mantar, Gen-Zs Gandhian instinct for self-restraint and co-responsibility showed democracy becoming, once again, a way of life.

The Constituent Assembly members never foresaw paper leaks as a crisis in independent Indias education future. But debates on the Public Service Commissions reveal an acute anxiety among the framers that without integrity of the examination process, self-government post British-rule would remain strained.

Eighty years after Independence, the fight against exam-system collapse, bulldozer raj and communal politics is a continuation of the freedom struggle itself.

The Supreme Courts recent ruling upholding criminal liability for cruelty to live-in relationships in the nature of marriage must raise questions on why marriage is still the qualification for critical rights against intimate partner violence.

Prefatory Note This brief essay was initially submitted to the 'Notes and Comments' section of The British Journal of Political Sophistry in response to a Call for Papers on 'The Future of British Politics'. The essay was based on deep archival research into the work of the late eminent historian J. B. Morton (Beachcomber) who presented his findings in his By the Way column of the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975. The Editor of BJPS found the article not only 'not suitable for publication in the

Does Indias heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? A ground-level and RTI audit reveals that Delhis cooling centres are far removed from actual considerations of informal, domestic and gig workers who cannot stop toiling in the capitals killer heat.

The Forums seventh Annual Report documents a rekindled militancy following the Red Fort attack, a rise in the profiling and harassment of Kashmiri Muslims, the routine invocation of UAPA and PSA against civilians, and continued stagnation on statehood, alongside a special section on Ladakh and Pakistan-held Kashmir.

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Courts decision earlier this week convicting and sentencing for ten years of incarceration Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka magazine, of sexually assaulting a former colleague arrived as a reckoning of the victims thirteen years of a Sisyphean struggle through relentlessness, shaming and facing the regressive churn of our courts. In 2021, eight years after Tejpal was first accused of raping a junior colleague in the elevator of a Goa resort, abusing his p

The Supreme Courts new Report on reforming judicial language treats sanitising vocabulary as a substitute for resolving the status-based rights those very words were built to define, a blind spot in its approach to sensitivity.

Overturning a seven-year-old trial court acquittal, the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court sentences Tejpal to 10 years rigorous imprisonment, ruling his apology emails were admissions of guilt and the prosecutrixs statement needed no corroboration beyond her own testimony

Raju Z. Morays thirty stories, narrated by Gobble D. Gook, find the wit and humanity that court reports and judgments leave out.

Clarifying its earlier order, which was being misconstrued to deny the benefit of no coercive action against student protestors accused in minor offences, the Court also mulled over the possibility of setting up an SIT to investigate police excesses.