Skand Vats

Independence must be assessed alongside the safeguards governing appointments, decision-making, electoral-roll administration and accountability.

The care economy keeps women out of politics, but women in politics are the most likely actors to dismantle the care economy.

If the government is serious about the reform, it will bring this bill. If it does not, the midnight defeat of April 17 will be remembered not as a federalist veto but as a deliberate delay dressed in the language of progress

Can a constitutionally limited period for holding ministerial office without being a legislator be effectively restarted through reappointment?

Encounter killings promise certainty but deliver constitutional uncertainty, diminishing not only Article 21 but the rule of law itself.

Constitutional shields meant for tribal protection are pointed in the wrong direction, leading to economic neo-bondage in India’s mineral-rich Schedule V areas.

The algorithmic auction is not a metaphor; it is the operational reality of labour markets in which AI coordinates wage-setting and virtual architecture creates inescapable lock-in.

If fundamental rights are to mean anything in the age of platforms, Article 12 in the Constitution of India cannot remain imprisoned in the mid-century imagination of power.