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Saving India’s Endangered Languages in light of National Education Policy, 2020
Our Faculty, Abhishek Chakravarty discusses the role of the new National Education Policy in protecting endangered languages in India from the threat of extinction…in Jurist In his inaugural...
Involving indigenous people in environmental governance
Our faculty, Abhishek Chakravarty discuses The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and its uniqueness in conferring the autonomy and right to self-governance to indigenous people living in parts...
COVID-19, Political Prisoners, and the Overcrowding of Prisons
Barely a few months after news broke about a novel virus with the potential for a global pandemic, COVID-19 brought the entire world to a grinding halt. Even though some countries have decided to...
COVID19 Vaccine: Development, Access and Distribution in the Indian Context
More than three months since India announced its first lockdown, the country has not seen a decline in its COVID-19 cases. To be sure, the various phases of the lockdown, along with the dissemination...
Child As A Consumer – Perspectives From Law And Behaviour
Law serves an important role as a tool for behavioural change in society. As the jurist Hans Kelsen noted, law and social order help bring about important changes in human behaviour[1]. Law also...
Heralding a new health data regime in India
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended several datafication approaches to healthcare, whether it is digital dashboards at the state-level to track and trace Covid-19 hotspots or a myriad of contact...
India needs a Strategic Shift in its Policy on Quality to achieve ‘self-reliance’
The recent Indo-China faceoff at Galwan Valley in Ladakh has led to a nation-wide public campaign to boycott Chinese goods. This boycott comes in against the backdrop of two massive campaigns of the...
Supreme Court order on children in shelter homes: New standards for human rights monitoring and...
On June 6, there were reports that 35 children in a Chennai children’s institution were infected with Coronavirus and that while those who infected were hospitalized, the remaining were shifted to an...
Baghjan blowout shows why we need to fix liabilities
After nearly two weeks of uncontrolled leakage at an oil well in Upper Assam’s Baghjan village, a massive explosion followed by an all-engulfing fire is ravaging the area. Two people have already...