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Dec 25, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
PRASHANT Reddy Thikkavarapu studied law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and Stanford Law School, California, as a J.N. Tata Scholar. After a stint in the litigation teams at two Delhi-based law firms specialising in intellectual property law, he worked in academia and think tanks in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Singapore. Over the last few years, he has been advising Ranbaxy Whistleblower Dinesh Thakur in his advocacy campaign for the reform of drug regulatory law in India.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
SANJOY Ghose is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Asem Chanu Manimala |Sandeep Pandey |A K Shiburaj |ABHISH K BOSE
What is the reason behind the beauty-beast combination in the body of a woman? We all want to look beautiful, who does not? We are beautiful in our ways and beauty holds in the eyes of the beholder. I am sure most women will agree with this. So, if we wear a jean, a skirt, a saree, a sarong, or a phanek-Manipuri traditional women’s loin cloth, we wear it by our choice.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sandeep Pandey |Asem Chanu Manimala |A K Shiburaj |ABHISH K BOSE
Statements of Mizoram CM Lalduhoma made some time back in the United States calling for unification of Kukis, unjustly divided under three different Governments of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, under single leadership even if it meant transcending national borders has drawn criticism from CM of Manipur N. Biren Singh who has responded by saying he is committed to territorial integrity of India and Manipur.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
In this exclusive interview, Supreme Court lawyer Dr K.S. Chauhan expresses his thoughts on sub-categorisation, an economic criterion for reservations and the representation of Scheduled Castes and Tribes in public services in India. —Dr K.S. Chauhan has been practising in the Supreme Court of India for the last 38 years. He has a doctorate in law from the M.D. University, Rohtak, and has taught at the Indian Law Institute and faculty of law, University of Delhi.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thenewsminute.com | ABHISH K BOSE |Binu Karunakaran
When Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) S Aneeshya took her life in January this year, she left behind a a 19-page suicide note and multiple voice messages pointing towards the workplace harassment she faced. Ten months later, the Crime Branch investigation into her death has stalled, while her alleged harassers have returned to service in Kerala's prosecution system.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
In this exclusive interview, Professor Anupama Roy turns the intense gaze of her expertise on the changing dynamics of citizenship in India and the role of the judiciary. —ANUPAMA Roy is a professor at the Centre for Political Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her research and publications are in the fields of citizenship studies, political anthropology of public institutions, constitutionalism, law and democracy, and gender studies.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
The Hema Committee report on problems faced by women in the Malayalam film industry has opened the lid of a can of worms we are all too familiar with, reports Abhish K. Bose. —IN the verdant landscape of Kerala, a crisis festers, shrouded in secrecy and societal conceit. Sexual corruption, a hydra-headed monster, stalks the streets, preying on the vulnerable and the voiceless.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | ABHISH K BOSE
In this exclusive interview, 1976 batch Indian Police Service officer D.V. Guruprasad talks about the various challenges the policing system is facing in India and how to address them. —D.V. Guruprasad is a 1976 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. During his long and illustrious career, he served as the superintendent of police (SP) in three communally sensitive districts and then as the deputy inspector general of police of Gulbarga range.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sandeep Pandey |Asem Chanu Manimala |A K Shiburaj |ABHISH K BOSE
The violence which shows no sign of abating in the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict in Manipur is a matter of concern. The alienation of the two communities and hatred generated for each other is unprecedented. The Meiteis cannot leave Manipur by road because the next district North on the way to Kohima in Nagaland is Kangpokpi, a Kuki dominated area where the young Kuki men and women are guarding the district borders and would not let any Meitei pass through the national highway.
