We are at a phase in the queer movement where we have seen that it is increasingly becoming lawyer-centric. For the smallest of issues, people seem to rush to the Supreme Court. What this frequently ...

Gajanan Khergamker is an Editor, Solicitor and Documentary Film-maker with over three decades of experience in Media and Law. He is the founder of DraftCraft International - a global policy research ...

A woman being groped on a street or public transport cannot be termed "participative" on her part in such incidents and she cannot be prosecuted for failing to act, a Mumbai court has held in the 2007 ...

This is the tricky balance in a democracy, where citizen rights and civil liberties must be respected, decision-making should be participative and representative, but the authority of the State and ...

The upcoming national election is unlikely to be "participatory" and it is impossible to ensure public confidence in such an election, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said yesterday. TIB ...