Selected Articles and Quotes
Selected Articles
- The Historical Baggage of ‘Due Process’: Violence, Privilege, and the Rule of Law (Smashboard, 1 November 2018; republished Firstpost, 2 November 2018)
- A two-part series: Part 1: Concentration camps, citizenship and the burden of erasure in India and Part 2: Nationalities and rights held hostage to documentation (Asia Times, 16 & 17 October 2018)
- Section 377: Decriminalising homosexuality is great, but the fight for true equality is not yet over (Scroll, 07 September 2018)
- Rape laws: Why the Supreme Court must read down Section 377 – but not strike it down in its entirety (Scroll, 12 July 2018)
- Free speech exists, but its consequences must be recognized (Asia Times, 15 June 2018)
- TimesNow’s Tejpal tapes programme reflects many legal and ethical concerns about reporting rape (Scroll, 29 May 2018)
- Opinion: #DeathForChildRape is an empty slogan – it won’t stop attacks on our children (Scroll, 22 April 2018)
- Are Indians making effective demands in protest against rape incidents? (Asia Times, 18 April 2018)
- Opinion: Making Postcard News founder’s arrest about fake news rather than communal hatred is risky (Scroll, 31 March 2018)
- Explicit images of women need to be liberated from the male gaze (Asia Times, 07 March 2018)
- Behind India's first woman lawyer, Cornelia Sorabji (DailyO, 15 Nov 2017)
- Sexual abusers list is problematic – but gives victims a sense of regaining control (Scroll, 26 October 2017)
- Feeble is Fierce (Blurb in India Today, 27 October 2017)
- India takes first step towards criminalizing marital rape (Asia Times, 12 October 2017)
- No may not mean no: Order acquitting Peepli Live co-director of rape opens terrifying possibilities (in Scroll, 27 September 2017)
- Mahmood Farooqui: HC’s troubling interpretation of consent (Asia Times, 26 September 2017)
- Talk Point: Is crowdsourcing and publishing names of alleged sexual predators fair? (Blurb in The Print, 25 October 2017)
- SC's Right to Privacy ruling does more for Indians than we had hoped for (Business Standard, 25 August 2017)
- Sedition Law A Relic of the Past, But Can’t be Repealed At Will (Quint, 19 August 2016)
- Perumal Murugan and the Judicial Defence of Free Speech (Live Law, reprinted from my blog on 6 July 2016)
- The 857-Site Porn Ban and the Contours of Indian Public Discourse (10 August 2015)
- SC’s free speech verdict needs to be celebrated with significant pinch of salt (26 March 2015)
- ‘Death for rape’ is not justice but symptom of a society that doesn’t value women (in LegallyIndia, 5 April 2014)
- Why Didn't She Walk Out? (Indian Express, 23 June 2013)
- Demystifying plagiarism, the legal way (MXM India, 17 August 2012)
- On India's Proposed Statutory Broadcasting Licence (12 September 2011)
- On The Indian Governments Clarification On IT Rules And Personal Data (26 August 2011)
Jointly-Authored Articles
- Courts, Contracts, and Coronavirus (with Sidharth Chopra | Medianama, 20 April 2020; Bar and Bench, 01 May 2020)
- The Future of Copyright Policy in India (with Sidharth Chopra | Medianama, 11 July 2019; Bar and Bench, 13 July 2019)
- Technology, Fears of Cultural Submergence, and Video Regulation in India (with Sidharth Chopra | LiveLaw, 08 May 2019; Medianama, 09 May 2019)
- The Cumulative Effect of Recent Internet Regulation (with Sidharth Chopra | Medianama, 11 February 2019; Bar and Bench, 12 February 2019)
- State Intervention in the Development of Digital India (with Sidharth Chopra | Bar and Bench, 7 December 2019; Medianama, 9 January 2019)
- Cross-Sectoral Conceptions of ‘Public Interest’ (with Sidharth Chopra | Medianama, 22 November 2018; Bar and Bench, 2 December 2018)
Selected Quotes
- #MeToo: How should Indian firms deal with sexual harassment complaints from a worker’s previous job? (in Scroll by Aarefa Johari, 20 November 2018)
- Not just Hadiya: Indian courts have had a long problem accepting women’s free choices (in Scroll by Shoaib Daniyal, 4 December 2017)
- Crowd-sourced list of ‘academic harassers’ sparks row in India (by Vishakha Saxena in Asia Times, 25 October 2017)
- Focus on consent after acquittal of filmmaker (in The Telegraph India, 2 October 2017)
- Can Prasoon Joshi Clean Up The Mess Pahlaj Nihalani Has Left The Censor Board In? (in Huffington Post by Aroon Deep, 12 August 2017)
- How I escaped an X-rated life: A 56-year-old woman on moving court and asking for porn websites to be blocked (in Indian Express by by Dipti Nagpaul D'souza, 25 June 2017)
- Women's Rights Advocate Resigns After Taking Smiling Selfie with Rape Victim (in Broadly, Vice by Gabby Bess, 1 July 2016)
- What They Said: Former Chief Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma’s Death (in India Ink, New York Times by Neha Thirani Bagri, 23 April 2013)
- 2(m) or not 2(m) (in Business Standard by Nilanjana Roy, 25 January 2013)
- New privacy rules under the IT Act (in MyLaw by Amlan Mohanty, 31 July 2011)
- Wronging a Right (in India Today by Nandini Vaish, 26 June 2010)
- Lawyers, publishers demand changes in Copyright Bill (WebIndia123, 27 May 2010)
- Digital Dimensions (in Times of India by Sindhu Manjesh, 8 May 2010)