Opinion Pieces in Newspapers
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‘The bureaucracy as prosecutor and judge’, The Hindu, August 7, 2023
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‘Don’t dilute the Drugs & Cosmetics Act’, Economic Times, March 29, 2023; (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Children are dying. We need a worldwide medicines treaty to avoid further tragedies’, Guardian, March 23, 2023 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Jail for doing bad business: Why GoI should reconsider provisions of Jan Vishwas Bill that decriminalises criminals’, Economic Times, January 5, 2023 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Cough syrups deaths: India’s drug regulator must stop treating public health crises as public relations problems’, Indian Express, December 30, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘India must act on drug adulteration – lives around the world are at stake’, Guardian, October 17, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Deaths in Gambia must be a wake-up call for India’, Mint, October 14, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Strengthen the drug regulation framework’, Hindustan Times, October 10, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘India needs a national drug recall law without further delay. Here’s why’, Economic Times, October 7, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘The New Drugs Bill: A missed opportunity for reforms in Ayush’, Business Standard, August 22, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Drugs, Medical Devices & Cosmetics Bill: Why the Bill is bad medicine’, Economic Times, August 19, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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'Drugs, medical devices & cosmetics bill 2022: A law whose date has expired’, Economic Times, July 24, 2022; (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur)
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'A new legislation that mirrors the old’, The Hindu, July 20, 2022 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Crime and copyright infringement’, The Hindu, June 8, 2022 (co-authored with Yogesh Pai);
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‘The troubling ‘courtroom policy making by the Supreme Court’, Indian Express, December 23, 2021 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘What we need to fix our judicial system’, Indian Express, November 6, 2021 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘Making ED and CBI accountable to elected representatives is a good thing, not a sinister arrangement’, Economic Times¸ November 22, 2021;
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‘NJIC is not the first instance of the Supreme Court proposing greater centralisation’, Economic Times, October 31, 2021 (co-authored with Chitrakshi Jain);
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‘The enactment of Tribunals Reforms, 2021 marks the beginning of a new era of judicial reforms in India’, Economic Times, August 10, 2021;
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‘Why an intellectual property waiver for vaccines is not so ‘IP’IP hooray at all’, Economic Times, May 6, 2021 (co-authored with Yogesh Pai);
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‘The proliferation of tribunals is in need of a legislative reversal’, Mint, February 16, 2021;
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‘Is a person’s address public information?’, The Hindu, December 1, 2020 (co-authored with Shailesh Gandhi);
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‘Making the language of the law comprehensible’, The Hindu, September 23, 2020;
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‘India’s Ayush industry needs an entirely new regulatory model’, The Mint, July 8, 2020 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Protect Indian media from predatory tech platforms’, Hindustan Times, April 29, 2020;
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‘Ruling against judicial transparency’, The Hindu, March 12, 2020;
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‘Whose count of judges is it anyway?’, Economic Times, July 21, 2019 (co-authored with Tarika Jain);
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‘It’s time to tame the social media beast’, Economic Times, February 13, 2019;
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‘India must stop providing immunities to social media giants it doesn’t provide its own traditional media’, Economic Times, January 11, 2019;
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‘An indecent settlement’, Hindu, June 26, 2019;
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‘Privacy in the age of sunshine laws’, Hindu, April 6, 2019 (co-authored with Vaidehi Misra);
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‘The correct prescription’, Hindu, February 26, 2019;
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‘A solution in search of a problem’, Hindu, December 25, 2018 (co-authored with Diksha Sanyal);
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‘Questioning a crackdown’, The Hindu, August 16, 2018;
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‘Banning combination drugs: A high-stakes case in point’, Indian Express, November 21, 2017 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Stability testing: DCGI, health ministry must act together to ensure stable drugs’, Indian Express, September 12, 2017 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Draft Pharmaceutical Policy 2017: Recognising drug quality concerns in India signals paradigm shift’, Indian Express, August, 29, 2017 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Generic medicines in a digital age’, Hindu, April 29, 2017 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Walking the fine line between IP and public health’, Hindu Business Line, January 20, 2017 (co-authored with Sumathi Chandrashekaran);
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‘Pharma industry’s playbook on low-quality drugs’, Indian Express, December 20, 2016 (co-authored with Dinesh Thakur);
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‘Safety Imperative’, Indian Express, January 9, 2014;
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‘Freeing the other judiciary’, Indian Express, September 27, 2013;
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‘Why consumers not companies should be kings of the internet’, Economic Times, July 27, 2013;
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‘The problem with punitive damages’, Business Standard, April 20, 2013.
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‘Interim justice: A troubling trend’, Business Standard, March 30, 2013;
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‘The Regulatory Mess in Indian Science’, Business Standard, January 13, 2013;
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‘Tribunals stuffed with bureaucrats’, Business Standard, December 8, 2012;
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‘The publishing wars’, Business Standard, September 9, 2012;
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‘RTI law is for lawyers’, Business Standard, October 7, 2012;
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‘Should the Government ban file-sharing websites?’, Business Standard, May 30, 2012;
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‘Build patents regime on fortified law’, Economic Times, October 7, 2010 (co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer).