From Text to Praxis: Kalpana Kannabiran on Legal Theory, Caste, and Feminist Thought
Kalpana Kannabiran is a sociologist and legal scholar whose work has focused on the intersections of sociology, law, literature, gender…
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 by Alastair McClure (2025): A Review by Ranjan Chatterjee
Alastair McClure’s Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922, published by Yoda…
Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law, and Freedom of the Press in India by Pamela Philipose (2025): A Review by Sanskriti
In Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law, and Freedom of the Press in India (Orient Blackswan, 2025), Pamela Philipose attempts…
Semiotic Meanings of Shoe-Throwing – Vijay Pal
The recent incident of shoe-hurling at Chief Justice of India BR Gavai by a septuagenarian lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, in the…
When Trees Fall, Who Decides? Revisiting Legal Power and Territorial Control in the Name of Conservation – Shailendra Ahirwar
Introduction The recent uproar over the Telangana government’s plan to cut down over 400 acres of trees in Hyderabad’s Kancha…
Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India by Tanweer Fazal (2024): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In his book Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India (published by Three Essays Collective in 2024),…
Governing Forests: State, Laws, and Citizenship in India’s Forests by Arpitha Kodiveri (2024): A Review by Saurabh Hatkar
On 26th June 2024, I presented my first-year board paper review with external examiners Sophie Haines and Clare Barnes, both…
Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualising Dignity After Puttaswamy vs. Union of India by Kalpana Kannabiran and Devi Jagani (2024): A Review by Mihir Rajamane
In Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualising Dignity After Puttaswamy vs. Union of India (published by Zubaan in 2024),…
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (2024): A Review by Javaria Farooqui
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (published by Cambridge University Press)…
Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) by Veena Das (2022): A Review by Chakraverti Mahajan
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…