#StoryAlert 🚨. The much-awaited profile. 'Performative Justice: The equivocations of DY Chandrachud'. The burden of expectation on an erudite man with a sophisticated demeanour was immense. But Chandrachud’s tenure “has been two steps forward, four steps backward, six steps

RT @lauren_wilford: I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to….

RT @beastoftraal: Not address proof. Not age proof. Not proof of citizenship. Aadhaar is proof that you have Aadhaar. .

RT @LiveLawIndia: Dwivedi: I have serious objections about this. In case of ADR recently the court has deprecated for doing this and the sa….

RT @LiveLawIndia: ECI Counsel: let the revision exercise be completed. And then your lordships can look at the entire picture. J Dhulia: y….

Wishing Umar and others all the very best. Five years in jail is a long and brutal stretch, enough to reshape a person’s psyche, wear down the soul. It sometimes amazes me how, despite the Supreme Court’s clear jurisprudence that prolonged incarceration, even in a UAPA case,

RT @SauravDassss: #StoryAlert 🚨. For the seventh 'Case In Point' column, I write about how India's Film Certification Board has become a mo….

RT @kunalpurohit: Glad to have played a small part in this petition to push for greater transparency in the way the Central Information Com….

RT @govindprataps12: ब्रिज टूटने के बाद बैठक हो रही है 🙄

RT @kunalpurohit: Inaugurated just days ago, Rs 243 CRORE bridge in Ajmer caves in. Court forced to shut down the bridge.👏👏👏 . https://t.co….

RT @taj_india007: GUJARAT MODEL . This is not act of God But corruption of Govt. #Gujarat is in the grip of corruption by Leaders and its….

RT @madhavagg16: The coverage by legal media doesn't delve into details. This PIL primarily sought a declaration that CIC hearings are open….

RT @j_chitrakshi: Need more organising around press freedoms by the members of the profession themselves. This is excellent!.

RT @NarundarM: Instead of retiring people’s 10 year old cars, the government should start inspecting old bridges and retire them if necessa….

RT @VinitaDeshmukh: Thanks @SauravDassss for initiating this petition. I am glad to be your co-petitioner. Kudos to the mission of transpar….

RT @raman_anuradha: From tthe composition of board members to certification, the Board has always upheld Indian middle class morals!!!!.

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OTT platforms once promised a new frontier of an independent, daring, democratic space are now, in the words of actor-director @anuragkashyap72, “shitshow” for their “lack of empathy, courage, and vision”. The result? Great self-censorship and a vanishing tribe of competent,.

The government's intense control over cinema, ensures that citizens remain passive consumers, in their own little bubbles and silos, easier to control when divided. The result is a society where people cease to be active participants in public life and instead come to view the.

The action highlights the Indian state’s paternalistic attitude towards its citizens: either they are deemed too naive to grasp the gravity of difficult truths, or such truths are considered too dangerous to awaken them to. What would an upper-middle-class young adult understand.

A society constantly numbed with safe stories and cheap spectacle loses the language to articulate injustice or even recognise it. For instance, a critically-acclaimed film like Santosh offended the CBFC for its realistic and morally complex portrayal of police brutality, caste.