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3 weeks ago | 
theweek.in | Kanu Sarda |Prashant Reddy T |Chitrakshi Jain
'Tareekh Pe Justice: Reforms for India’s District Courts' takes this all-too-familiar phrase from the iconic film Damini and turns it into a rallying cry for change. This book isn’t just a dry analysis of India’s judiciary—it’s a heartfelt wake-up call and enumerated solutions for fixing a system that’s buckling under its own weight. India’s district courts serve as the backbone of the judicial system, handling the bulk of civil and criminal cases.
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2 months ago | 
newslaundry.com | Prashant Reddy T |Vivek Kaul
Over the last decade we have read many an obituary about the Right to Information Act. Let me add to that long list of obituaries by narrating how I lost eight out of nine cases before one Information Commissioner – Heeralal Samariya, a former IAS officer who was first appointed to the Central Information Commission in August 2021 and then subsequently appointed Chief Information Commissioner in November 2023.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
newslaundry.com | Nik Williams |Vivek Kaul |Prashant Reddy T
Modi’s vision of a restrained online space in India had a busy but not wholly satisfying 2024. The latest version of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill vanished from sight after content creators vociferously pushed back. The Digital India Bill, which aimed to wrestle control from Silicon Valley, similarly could not be saved from a similar fate after Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the former minister of state for information technology, lost his seat.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
zephyrnet.com | Prashant Reddy T
Penning his 6 years long campaign to trace important public documents admittedly lost by the government, Prashant highlights the lack of transparency and shoddy record keeping by CDSCO and shares his exhausting experience with the resultant litigation before the DHC. Prashant Reddy T is an advocate and one of our most prolific bloggers (His posts can be accessed here).
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
theindiaforum.in | Prashant Reddy T
The Government of India announced on 26 May that it had scored a big victory for the country and the global South when member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) agreed to adopt a new international legal instrument imposing a specific disclosure requirement under patent law.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Prashant Reddy T
There is a possible crisis brewing in India over the manner in which certain technology companies are wielding ‘standard essential patents’ (SEP) against the telecom manufacturing sector in India. This is a complex policy issue which has direct ramifications for India’s effort to build a domestic manufacturing industry for cellular phones. So far, the issues of regulating SEPs have been left to the judiciary, which, as an institution, has mostly missed the ball.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Prashant Reddy T
The court had earlier refused to accept an apology by Ramdev and Balkrishna last week. Newslaundry had earlier reported that Ramdev deceptively sold Coronil as cure for Covid during the pandemic. Read here. The self-styled yoga guru, who has established a gigantic retail empire, has been riding on the shoulders of Big Media. Read about it here. If you’re reading this story, you’re not seeing a single advertisement. That’s because Newslaundry powers ad-free journalism that’s truly in public interest.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Prashant Reddy T
Since its founding in 2017, the Supreme Court Observer, which describes itself as a “living archive” of the Supreme Court, promised to be a breath of fresh air in a world of social media-driven legal journalism and commentary that is often polemical and partisan.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
scroll.in | Prashant Reddy T
On October 20, Justice Shripathi Ravindra Bhat retired from the Supreme Court of India, after 19 industrious years on the bench. Appointed to the Delhi High Court in 2004 where he served until May, 2019 before assuming the role of chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court and eventually being appointed to the Supreme Court in September 2019. There is much to say about Justice Bhat’s career on the bench especially his courage on the bench.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
theindiaforum.in | Prashant Reddy T
One of the key legislations passed by Parliament in its monsoon session was the Jan Vishwas Act, 2023 that amended 42 legislations with the intention of decriminalising offences under them. The government had touted this legislation as a means to decriminalise “minor offences”, which would improve the “ease of doing business” in the country. In a country like India, which for the most part is a carceral state, any talk of decriminalisation would usually be a reason to celebrate.
