Opinion Pieces in Digital Media
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‘Open government data policies must serve democracy and not just industry’, Bloomberg-Quint, February 26, 2022;
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‘India needs judicial reforms but granting more powers to the chief justice won’t solve anything’, Scroll, February 24, 2022 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘When violations aren’t penalized: The legality of the Patanjali advertising tsunami’, Newslaundry, February 12, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Instead of relying on jugaad, journalists need access to court pleadings’, Newslaundry, December 23, 2021 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘Data Protection Bill: Three Controversial Recommendations of the Joint Committee’, Bloomberg-Quint, December 20, 2021;
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‘Why the Indian government needs to make information about its own legal cases more transparent’, Scroll, October 25, 2021 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘Even if WTO waives IP on vaccines, India will face challenges translating this into mass production’, Scroll, June 1, 2021 (co-authored with Yogesh Pai);
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‘In India, Covid-19 Vaccines Face A More Urgent Problem than IPR’, Bloomberg-Quint, April 20, 2021;
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‘Why Bollywood’s new-found love for the abolished Film Certification Appellate Tribunal is surprising’, Scroll, April 15, 2021;
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‘SC is steering an ambitious e-courts plan – but does it have the constitutional right to do so?’, Scroll, April 9, 2021;
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‘With new OCI notification, India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship’, Scroll, March 6, 2021;
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‘New IT Rules: The Great Stretching of ‘Due Diligence’ Requirements under Section 79’, The Wire, February 27, 2021;
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‘Sci-Hub case: What India should do to ensure that academic journals are available at fair prices’, Bloomberg-Quint, February 11, 2021 (co-authored with Vishal Rakhecha);
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‘Solution to Sci-Hub Litigation Lies in Better Funding for Indian Science’, Bloomberg-Quint, January 25, 2021 (co-authored with Vishal Rakhecha);
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‘The controversies over ‘Surgeries’ and Indian Medicine’, Bloomberg-Quint, January 7, 2021;
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‘IPAB’s Statutory Licensing Order is Off-Key’, Bloomberg-Quint, January 7, 2021;
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‘The comeback of the Indian Legal Service to Tribunals’, Bloomberg-Quint, December 11, 2020;
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‘The Jan Soochana Portal: A test case for balancing privacy and transparency’, Scroll, August 13, 2020;
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‘Cheque Bouncing: Join the League of Civilised Nations’, Bloomberg-Quint, June 15, 2020;
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‘Which public authority should be in charge of India’s policy on diagnostic kits for COVID-19?’, Scroll, April 3, 2020;
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‘Fine print: Indian law does not allow Census machinery to be used to build NRC’, Scroll, February 22, 2020;
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‘Personal Data Protection Bill: The Consent Black Hole’, Bloomberg-Quint, February 22, 2020;
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‘Personal Data Protection Bill: Will It Lock Out Competition to Big Tech?’, Bloomberg-Quint, February 20, 2020;
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‘Personal Data Protection Bill: What Happens When Government Acquires Data’, Bloomberg-Quint, February 17, 2020;
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‘Why the Supreme Court’s judgment on combination drugs sends wrong signals’, Scroll, December 29, 2017;
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‘The Indian Judiciary has declared war on the RTI Act – and that’s hampering judicial reform’, Scroll, November 30, 2019 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘Ayodhya Verdict: How claims of ‘mental worship’ at Babri Masjid helped win it for Hindus’, Newslaundry, November 13, 2019;
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‘Executive might and our fragile liberty’, Newslaundry, August 16, 2019
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‘Rethink the foundations of the RTI Act’, Bloomberg-Quint, August 8, 2019;
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‘Supreme Court needs better management, not more judges’, Bloomberg-Quint, June 27, 2019;
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‘Wynk’ing at the Copyright Act’, Bloomberg-Quint, May 15, 2019;
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‘The silence of the Rajya Sabha’, LiveLaw, May 14, 2019;
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‘Did a recent Delhi High Court judgment take India over the TRIPS Redline?’, Bloomberg-Quint, May 1, 2019;
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‘A vintage SC order on political advertising may open a pandora’s box for Silicon Valley’, The Wire, January 28, 2019;
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‘Delhi HC judgment on oxytocin calls out government on its arbitrary order’, Scroll, December 28, 2018;
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‘Liability, not encryption is what India’s new intermediary regulations are trying to fix’, The Wire, December 28, 2018;
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‘One data protection legislation and one regulator for 1.3 billion people?’, The Wire, July 31, 2018;
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‘Amid growing online hate, India must reconsider immunities to Facebook, Twitter’, The Wire, May 30, 2018;
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‘Should there be a ‘developing country’ template for data protection legislation’, The Wire, May 17, 2018;
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‘Should states have the power to enact their own data protection laws?’, The Wire, December 22, 2017;
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‘Does India need only one data protection law and regulator to rule them all?’, The Wire, December 7, 2017;
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‘The comical farce around the Rasogolla GI’, The Wire, November 20, 2017;
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‘A small but significant victory for tort law and civil liberties’, Livelaw, October 6, 2017;
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‘Supreme Court Petitioners must be made to expunge their bigotry against the Rohingya’, The Wire, September 15, 2017;
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‘Data protection: Can India overcome the spy-security state and big tech to enact a strong law?’, Scroll, August 22, 2017;
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‘The breakdown of precedent at the Delhi High Court on the issue of punitive damages in IP cases’, Livelaw, August 14, 2017
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‘Has the government signed the death warrant for the judicial independence of 19 tribunals?’, Scroll, June 5, 2017;
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‘India made a long overdue move to ensure better drug safety’, Scroll, April 12, 2017;
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‘Aadhaar: Amid the debate about privacy, the more pressing issue of exclusion has been forgotten’, Scroll, March 29, 2017;
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‘Finance Bill 2017 debate: Changes made to tribunals are unconstitutional and ill considered’, Scroll, March 27, 2017;
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‘India’s banking crisis is made worse by the poor performance of its debt recovery tribunals’, Scroll, March 5, 2017;
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‘Post-demonetisation, police have made big cash seizures – without the power to do so under law’, Scroll, November 28, 2016;
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‘‘The new Aadhaar Regulations grant the UIDAI unchecked power, and offer little convenience to users’, Vantage-Caravan, November 20, 2016;
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‘Is Modi’s government’s restriction on bank withdrawals supported by the law?’, Scroll, November 14, 2016;
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‘Why do government files go missing so often, and what can be done about it?’, Scroll, November 10, 2016;
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‘Is 74% foreign direct investment in brownfield pharma really bad for Indian generics’, Scroll, July 4, 2016;
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‘How the Election Commission oversteps its bounds during election season’, Vantage-Caravan, May 18, 2016;
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‘No longer a black box: Why does the revised Aadhaar Bill allow sharing of identity information?’, Scroll, April 8, 2016;
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‘The Aadhaar Bill is yet another legislation that leaves too much power with the Government at the Centre’, Vantage-Caravan, March 15, 2016;
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‘How the government used a flawed ordinance to expedite cases dealing with Rs. 1 crore or more while other cases remain pending’, Vantage-Caravan, November 6, 2015;