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Longform
Freedom of speech and constitutional nostalgia
Seminar 697, special issue on the "Founding Legacy" (September 2017) [PDF]
The cobwebs of imperial rule
Seminar 615, special issue on the Constitution of India after 60 years (November 2010) [PDF]
Shorter 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
People, Not the State, the Greatest Hurdle to Free Speech in India
Review of The Republic of Rhetoric by Abhinav Chandrachud
The Wire, May 30, 2018
‘Anger and Forgiveness’: Has Nussbaum Given Either Its Due?
Review of Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha Nussbaum
The Wire, April 17, 2017
Why you must read Gautam Bhatia’s ‘Offend, Shock, and Disturb’ to debate Free Speech in India
Review of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution by Gautam Bhatia [PDF]
Scroll.in, December 27, 2015
Frames of Mind
Review of Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer
Indian Express, November 17, 2012
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