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Fortnightly Column
The Hindustan Times (Print and Online)
What AI can do for the judiciary, what it can’t
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 21st May 2026
Anchor judicial recusal in institutional design
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 7th May 2026
The stakes are high in the Sabarimala matter
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 23rd April 2026
A critique of the judiciary and a disproportionate response
Hindustan Times · Friday, 10th April 2026
Nuanced reading of the right to die with dignity
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 26th March 2026
War in West Asia and Failure of Global Order
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 12th March 2025
India’s Constitutionalism’s Stress Test in the Digital Age
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 26th February 2025
Religious rights, the courts, and the State
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 12th February 2026
Supreme Court of India: An institution that is both a monument and a mirror
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 29th January 2026
Judicial Course Corrections and Need for Judicial Finality
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 15th January 2026
Indian jails: Prisoners of the caste system
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 1st January 2026
From Sedition to UAPA: Policing Dissent in India
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 18th December 2025
Development And Clean Air Are Not Binary Choices
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 4th December 2025
Revised Waqf Law Raises Constitutional Red Flags
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 20th November 2025
Basic structure touchstone for anti-conversion laws
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 6th November 2025
Refugees in India: Rohingya case points to legal vacuum
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 23rd October 2025
Address Inconsistencies in India’s Green Jurisprudence
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 9th October 2025
Address Inconsistencies in India’s Green Jurisprudence
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 25th September 2025
How Puttaswamy Exorcised the Ghost of ADM Jabalpur
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 11th September 2025
The Lal Babu Touchstone for the Bihar SIR Exercise
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 28th August 2025
Unfinished Business Of Gender Justice In India
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 14th August 2025
Courts And The Making Of Transgender Rights
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 31st July 2025
Bommai Judgment Draws The Line For Democracy
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 17th July 2025
How Basic Structure Doctrine Protects Constitutional Rights
Hindustan Times · Thursday, 3rd July 2025
OTHER OP-EDS AND INVITED ESSAYS
The Siege of Iranian Higher Education
Report for the Gateway House, 02 Apr 2026
IP Education: India must build IP fluency to power its growth
The Hindu, 13 Mar 2026
India and Spain: Two Democracies, One Constitutional Challenge
I-CONnect Blog of the International Journal Of Constitutional Law (13 Feb 2026). Re-published in El Derecho (23 Feb 2026)
Get Patents Before Profits: The Patent-Citation Gap
Communication Today, 7 Feb 2026
How India Can Become a Deep Tech Powerhouse
Hindustan Times, 24 Jan 2025
¿Qué tienen en común España y la India? (“What do Spain and India have in common?”)
El Español (The Spanish), 2 Jan 2026. Re-published in El Derecho, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, 5 Jan 2026.
Report on Indian Deep-Tech Startup IP Ecosystem
CII and Qualcomm, 16 Dec 2025
भारत में रोज़गार: सुर्खियों से परे (“Employment in India: Beyond from headlines”)
Navbharat Times, 23 November 2025
Publicity
Privacy and Performance Rights, Economic Times – Expert Take, 10 Nov 2025
क्या जीडीपी समावेशी विकास का है सही पैमाना? (“Is GDP the right measure for inclusive growth?”)
Navbharat Times, 9 Nov 2025
The Unbreakable Bond Between Indonesia and India
The Jakarta Post, 3 Oct 2025
Cooperation not regulation needed to get 10% of 6G patents
Economic Times, 8 Sep 2025
Relevance of competition and privacy for Indian MSMEs
Economic Times, 19 Mar 2025
What Digital Personal Data Protection Rules Mean for Minors?
Economic Times, 7 Feb 2025
Toolkit for India to Take the Lead in the 6G Race
Hindustan Times, 13 Jan 2025
Protection of IP Rights in Indian Agriculture
Economic Times Legal World, 4 Dec 2024
The Search in Balance in Regulating Deepfakes
Hindustan Times, 9 May 2024
The TRIPS Waiver Paradox: what does it mean for India’s COVID-19 vaccine race?
Financial Express, 4 June 2021
New FCRA rules strike NGOs at a critical time
Indian Express, 15 December 2020
Why the abrogation of labour laws is problematic
Indian Express, 17 June 2020
Challenges before India
once COVID-19 pandemic is over, The Week, 6 April 2020
How Indian courts could be holding back the economy
Mail Today. 24 October 2019
Today's incentives for tomorrow's cures in India
The Guardian, 15 October 2019
Why trade war with the US is bad news for India and the world
First Post, 21 September 2019
RIP
Private cryptocurrency, Mail Today, 7 August 2019
The next patent frontier beckons
Mail Today, 10 July 2019
Delhi's mounting waste problem
Mail Today, 26 June 2019
The 5G battle is heating up
Mail Today, 12 June 2019
Brace for the next big technology battle
Mail Today, 22 May 2019
A new framework for IP Policy needed
Mail Today, 8 May 2019
Let's rethink our steel policy
Mail Today, 24 April 2019
A Blockchain makeover
Mail Today, 10 April 2019
Two decades of the mighty 3GPP
Economic Times, 3 April 2019
Technology solutions for bank NPAs
Mail Today, 28 March 2019
Fintech needs a strong identity
Mail Today, 14 March 2019
Blockchain tech comes of age
Mail Today, 28 February 2019
Cracking the Fintech code
Mail Today, 13 February 2019
South African IPR Policy: Myopic Vision
Momentary Gains, Business World, 26 Dec 2018
Enhancing India's competitive edge
Financial Express, 22 October 2018
Empowering existing institutions holds the key to IoEs
Indian Express, 24 August 2018
Trade margin rationalisation a game-changer
Financial Express, 30 June 2018
Reward innovation
The Hindu, 13 May 2018
An economic analysis of justice in corruption cases
Live Mint, 12 April 2018
IP market expansion: Need a robust IPR ecosystem
Financial Express, 29 March 2018
Justice cannot be blind to the economy
Hindu Business Line, 27 March 2018
NPPA must balance access with innovation
Live Mint, 20 March 2018
Price control in healthcare is a misguided policy
BioVoiceNews, 27 February 2018
Look for proof in policymaking
The Hindu, 04 February 2018
Phones that are too ‘smart’ for the law
Hindu Business Line, 20 January 2018
Ten developments in the communications industry
Economic Times, 18 January 2018
Ill-equipped for a healthy nation
Economic Times, 15 December 2017
Balancing patents and drug prices
Live Mint, 27 November 2017
Evidence suggests we protect IP in India
Financial Express, 02 August 2017
India’s proposed IP Exchange for quality patents
Hindustan Times, 31 July 2017
M2M and GSM for IoT-enabled rural development
Economic Times, 02 June 2017
Industrial Revolution 4.0: The Rise of the Machines
Economic Times, 12 May 2017
A robust IPR regime is necessary for growth
Live Mint, 02 May 2017
Who is riding IoT patent chariot in India?
. Economic Times, 14 March 2017
Germany’s SEP injunctions: Lessons for India
Economic Times, 23 February 2017
Software Patents and CRI Guidelines
Financial Express, 20 October 2016
Safeguarding confidential business info isn’t anti-competitive
Economic Times, 12 August 2016
Is the SEP/FRAND debate a battle of business models?
Economic Times, 23 May 2016
Time to Pause on IEEE policy and 'Make in India’
Business Standard, 05 April 2016
Is the Policy Focus Shifting from School Education to Higher Education?
London School of Economics Blog / Ideas for India, 3 September 2015
Comments on the Draft National IPR Policy (CIPTEL)
30 January 2015
IP
Competitiveness and Trade, in Processes and Contributions of IP Systems to Innovation, OECD Innovation Policy Platform, 2015
Combined Uses of Intellectual Property
in Processes and Contributions of IP Systems to Innovation, Innovation Policy Platform, OECD, 2015