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Adrija Ghosh and Dr, Durba Mitra discuss the idea of 'deviant female sexuality' that became foundational to modern social thought in colonial
Adrija Ghosh and Lubhyathi Rangarajan discuss about the developments in the Supreme Court hearings on the batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality
In this article, we seek to explain what mitigation is, and the inadequacies in the present capital sentencing framework that the Supreme
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In this article, I do not attempt to critique the legal reasoning behind the verdict. Instead, I try to understand what the
India has had a long history of encounters as a tool for crime control. In Mumbai, for instance, the infamous ‘encounter squad’