Longform writing
Essays
- ‘Decolonising’ the Law: The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question
Contribution to an online symposium on Decolonisation and the Law hosted by the Socio-Legal Review, Bengaluru (2024) - Constitutionalism without Sovereignty?
Comment on Norms and Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau in the Making of the Indian Constitution, 1935-50 by Arvind Elangovan, Law and Other Things (July 2021) - The Lamps in our House: Reflections on Postcolonial Pedagogy
Contribution to the inaugural Philosophy Forum, Miami Institute for the Social Sciences (March 2021) - Freedom of speech and constitutional nostalgia [PDF]
Seminar 697, special issue on the "Founding Legacy" (September 2017) - The cobwebs of imperial rule [PDF]
Seminar 615, special issue on the Constitution of India after 60 years (November 2010)
Reviews
Short articles and reviews
Articles
- If Left, Right and Centre could talk to each other in a civil tone earlier, what is the problem now? [PDF]
Scroll.in, May 27, 2017 - Memo to Amit Shah: BJP icon SP Mookerjee would not have appreciated curbs on free speech [PDF]
Scroll.in , November 25, 2016 - What self-styled nationalists could learn from the Hindu Right’s own past record on free speech [PDF]
Scroll.in, January 27, 2016 - Was Godse more patriotic than Gandhi? [PDF]
Scroll.in, November 28, 2015
Reviews
Review of Sixteen Stormy Days by Tripurdaman Singh [PDF] India Today, March 2020
Review of The Republic of Rhetoric by Abhinav Chandrachud
The Wire, May 30, 2018
Review of Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha Nussbaum The Wire, April 17, 2017
Review of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution by Gautam Bhatia
Scroll.in, December 27, 2015
Review of Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer Indian Express, November 17, 2012
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